--- title: "From FileUploadWorkflow to creative OS: How Layer scaled on Temporal" url: https://daily.dev/posts/from-fileuploadworkflow-to-creative-os-how-layer-scaled-on-temporal-iu6yuxuw4 source_url: https://temporal.io/blog/fileuploadworkflow-creative-os-layer-scaled-temporal type: article source: "Temporal" published: 2026-08-06T10:37:24.263Z updated: 2026-08-06T10:39:30.420Z tags: ["python", "distributed-systems", "workflow-orchestration"] reading_time: 14 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # From FileUploadWorkflow to creative OS: How Layer scaled on Temporal **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 14 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Layer, an AI creative platform for game studios, shares how they scaled from a single FileUploadWorkflow to 50 Temporal workflow types in production. The post covers their visual DAG pipeline builder (where each node is a Temporal child workflow), a unified RunInferenceWorkflow handling images, video, audio, and 3D with modality-aware timeouts and a webhook+polling hybrid, batch fan-out with custom flow control, task queue isolation to prevent noisy-neighbor problems, observability via a LoggingContextInterceptor plus OpenTelemetry, and a hard-learned lesson about using asyncio.shield() to protect cleanup activities from cancellation. They also discuss their MCP connector enabling LLM agents to invoke Layer workflows autonomously. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How Temporal powers workflows at HeyGen](https://daily.dev/posts/how-temporal-powers-workflows-at-heygen-ldf5xzfeg) · Temporal · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How Coverwatch uses Temporal to orchestrate AI-powered insurance workflows](https://daily.dev/posts/how-coverwatch-uses-temporal-to-orchestrate-ai-powered-insurance-workflows-3a236gsez) · Temporal · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How XY builds an AI agent orchestration platform for healthcare with Temporal](https://daily.dev/posts/how-xy-builds-an-ai-agent-orchestration-platform-for-healthcare-with-temporal-xglgek5oi) · Temporal · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems), [#workflow-orchestration](https://daily.dev/tags/workflow-orchestration) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/from-fileuploadworkflow-to-creative-os-how-layer-scaled-on-temporal-iu6yuxuw4)