--- title: Temporal standalone activities hit preview, Microsoft... description: A developer news digest covering four major stories: Temporal's Standalone Activities entering public preview (enabling durable background jobs without a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-standalone-activities-hit-preview-microsoft-build-drops-horizondb-emujekr2e twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Temporal standalone activities hit preview, Microsoft Build drops HorizonDB | daily.dev og:description: A developer news digest covering four major stories: Temporal's Standalone Activities entering public preview (enabling durable background jobs without a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-standalone-activities-hit-preview-microsoft-build-drops-horizondb-emujekr2e og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/emUjekR2E.png og:image:alt: Temporal standalone activities hit preview, Microsoft Build drops HorizonDB og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # Temporal standalone activities hit preview, Microsoft Build drops HorizonDB **[Backend Digest](https://daily.dev/sources/backend_digest)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A developer news digest covering four major stories: Temporal's Standalone Activities entering public preview (enabling durable background jobs without a workflow wrapper, with Coinbase migrating 200-600M jobs/day to it); Microsoft Build's HorizonDB announcement (a managed PostgreSQL service claiming 3x throughput and vector search improvements); Cloudflare data showing bot traffic now at 57.5% of all HTTP requests; and an actively exploited Cisco SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20245) with no patch available. Notable items include TypeScript 7.0's Go-rewritten compiler achieving ~10x faster builds, Datadog's PostgreSQL HA benchmarks showing 32-53% latency increases with synchronous replication, Cloudflare acquiring VoidZero, Anthropic publishing Claude Code containment post-mortems, and ClickHouse Cloud TPC-H benchmark results. ## Content **TLDR:** Temporal announced Standalone Activities in public preview, letting you run durable background jobs without a workflow wrapper or a separate job queue — Coinbase is already migrating 200-600M jobs/day off a Redis-backed system to it. Microsoft Build's biggest database announcement was HorizonDB, a managed PostgreSQL service claiming 3x transactional throughput and 3x faster vector search over self-managed Postgres. Bot traffic crossed 57.5% of all HTTP requests on the internet, earlier than Cloudflare's own forecast. The Cisco SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20245) is actively exploited with no patch available yet. --- ## Temporal Standalone Activities: durable job processing without a workflow, now in public preview Temporal's Standalone Activities let you fire a durable, retried, deduplicated background job with a single SDK call — no enclosing workflow required. The feature is in public preview across Python, Go, Java, TypeScript, and .NET, and it carries the full Temporal feature set: heartbeating, priority/fairness, UI visibility, and lifecycle control. Coinbase presented the clearest production signal: they're migrating a homegrown Redis-backed job system handling 200-600M jobs/day across 186 namespaces, specifically to eliminate a single-coordinator bottleneck and noisy-neighbor retry contention. If you're running a custom job queue on Redis or Postgres today, this is worth a serious look. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/E6t7jiIrU) ## Microsoft Build: HorizonDB is a new managed PostgreSQL with 3x throughput claims and built-in vector search HorizonDB is Microsoft's new cloud-native managed PostgreSQL service, now in public preview. The headline numbers are 3x transactional throughput and 3x faster vector search over self-managed Postgres, with up to 128TB elastic storage and 3,072 vCores. The AI-oriented additions are the more interesting part: async embedding pipelines via a pg_durable extension, hybrid full-text and vector search with reciprocal rank fusion, DiskANN approximate nearest-neighbor indexing, and knowledge graphs via Apache AGE — all accessible through standard SQL. Microsoft also noted it contributed roughly 8% of code changes to the upcoming PostgreSQL 19 release, which is a meaningful upstream commitment for a company shipping its own fork. Whether the throughput numbers hold under real production load is the open question; public preview will start to answer it. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/GBwJmEkoj) ## Bot traffic now 57.5% of internet HTTP requests, ahead of Cloudflare's own forecast Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince confirmed that automated bot traffic has crossed 50% of all HTTP requests for the first time, currently sitting at 57.5% bots versus 42.5% humans. Prince had predicted this wouldn't happen until late 2027. The bots driving the shift are primarily AI agents doing price comparison, content scraping, and personal assistant tasks — distinct from traditional crawlers. Some site operators are already reporting DDoS-like bandwidth consumption from aggressive AI crawlers and restricting public access as a result. If you run public APIs or web services, your traffic baseline assumptions probably need revisiting. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/yJVgyb0yo) ## Cisco SD-WAN zero-day CVE-2026-20245 actively exploited, no patch available Cisco has disclosed CVE-2026-20245, a high-severity privilege escalation flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that lets local attackers with netadmin privileges execute arbitrary commands as root by uploading a crafted file. Mandiant reported the flaw. It affects on-prem, cloud, and FedRAMP deployments, and there is no patch yet. Cisco's interim guidance is to upgrade to the build that fixes the related CVE-2026-20182 and check for compromise using the published IOCs. This is the same IronWorm-adjacent Cisco SD-WAN vulnerability class flagged in yesterday's digest — if you run SD-WAN infrastructure, check your exposure now. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TM6UbhVZz&id=Y5x7rn4pH) --- ## Also notable - **TypeScript 7.0 compiler rewrite in Go delivers ~10x faster builds:** The Go-rewritten TypeScript compiler (TSGO) is available now as `npm install @typescript/native-preview` and dropped a full VS Code codebase build from ~97 seconds to ~10 seconds; one Microsoft team reports saving 400 CI hours per month. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/A5w77sEDG) - **Datadog PostgreSQL on Kubernetes: synchronous replication added 32-53% latency, 23-34% throughput loss:** Datadog's gameday simulation revealed replicas lagged too far to promote safely under zonal failure, leading them to deploy synchronous replication with remote_apply mode — benchmarked at 32-53% higher latency and 23-34% lower throughput, a real number to factor into your own HA PostgreSQL sizing. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/nlJmhOJvB) - **Cloudflare acquires VoidZero, commits $1M to Vite maintainers:** Cloudflare acquired VoidZero (Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc) and is committing $1M to maintainers; Vite becomes the foundation for Cloudflare's unified CLI, with cf dev becoming a superset of vite dev. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/zm5JNJI3T) - **Anthropic publishes containment post-mortems: phishing exfiltrated AWS credentials 24/25 times, api.anthropic.com used as covert upload channel:** Anthropic's engineering team disclosed real incidents from Claude Code and Cowork containment work, including a phishing attack that successfully exfiltrated AWS credentials in 24 of 25 attempts and a data exfiltration path through the allowlisted api.anthropic.com domain — concrete failure modes worth reviewing before deploying agentic systems in sensitive environments. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/wH4jFBkcn) - **ClickHouse Cloud ran TPC-H SF100 in 19.8 seconds for $0.063, roughly 2x better cost-performance than Snowflake Large:** ClickHouse Cloud completed all 22 TPC-H SF100 queries on a single 59-core node in 19.8 seconds at $0.063, claiming the best cost-performance score in the benchmark — a 26x speedup on the same workload compared to two years ago. [Read more](https://app.daily.dev/posts/cYr7SIo3u) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Standalone Activities: Durable job processing, now in Public Preview \#](https://daily.dev/posts/standalone-activities-durable-job-processing-now-in-public-preview--od8qmrnvg) · Temporal · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#postgresql](https://daily.dev/tags/postgresql), [#distributed-systems](https://daily.dev/tags/distributed-systems) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-standalone-activities-hit-preview-microsoft-build-drops-horizondb-emujekr2e) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/temporal-standalone-activities-hit-preview-microsoft-build-drops-horizondb-emujekr2e","headline":"Temporal standalone activities hit preview, Microsoft Build drops HorizonDB","text":"A developer news digest covering four major stories: Temporal's Standalone Activities entering public preview (enabling durable background jobs without a workflow wrapper, with Coinbase migrating 200-600M jobs/day to it); Microsoft Build's HorizonDB announcement (a managed PostgreSQL service claiming 3x throughput and vector search improvements); Cloudflare data showing bot traffic now at 57.5% of all HTTP requests; and an actively exploited Cisco SD-WAN zero-day (CVE-2026-20245) with no patch available. 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