--- title: "How Rapidflare built a million+ document ingestion pipeline for Agents on Temporal" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-rapidflare-built-a-million-document-ingestion-pipeline-for-agents-on-temporal-jjkofixes source_url: https://temporal.io/blog/how-rapidflare-built-a-million-document-ingestion-pipeline-for-agents-on-temporal type: article source: "Temporal" published: 2026-08-06T10:37:28.236Z updated: 2026-08-06T10:41:32.815Z tags: ["ai-agents", "distributed-systems", "workflow-orchestration"] reading_time: 14 upvotes: 1 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. # How Rapidflare built a million+ document ingestion pipeline for Agents on Temporal **[Temporal](https://daily.dev/sources/temporal)** · 14 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rapidflare shares how they built a production document ingestion pipeline capable of handling over a million documents using Temporal for durable workflow orchestration. The pipeline serves AI agents for technical sales in the electronics/semiconductor industry, where incomplete or stale data directly degrades agent answer quality. Key architectural decisions include: a sliding window pattern to control fan-out and respect rate limits on LLM/embedding APIs, Activity Heartbeats for long-running crawlers and clean cancellation, Continue-as-New to avoid Temporal history size limits at million-document scale, cloud storage as a data bus to bypass payload size limits, per-concern Worker isolation across separate Task Queues, and durable approval gates using Workflow Signals. The post also covers zero-downtime promotion, recurring ingestion via Temporal Schedules, and observability through a dedicated status Worker. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#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/how-rapidflare-built-a-million-document-ingestion-pipeline-for-agents-on-temporal-jjkofixes)