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The session walked developers through the core... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-can-t-possibly-work-what-i-learned-at-a-temporal-io-workshop-dit0ioyod og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/dIt0IoyOd.png og:image:alt: “This Can’t Possibly Work”: What I Learned at a Temporal.io Workshop 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. # “This Can’t Possibly Work”: What I Learned at a Temporal.io Workshop **[Foojay.io](https://daily.dev/sources/foojayio)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A workshop recap from We Are Developers World Congress in Berlin covering Temporal.io's durable execution model. The session walked developers through the core problem: distributed applications crash mid-execution, leaving state inconsistent. Temporal solves this via history replay — recording workflow events so execution can resume on any machine after a crash, with variables intact and no duplicate work. The architecture splits logic into deterministic Workflows (orchestration) and Activities (side effects like API calls), with Workers replaying event history to reconstruct state. The Temporal Web UI provides full observability into every execution. The key insight: durable execution eliminates entire categories of infrastructure like cron jobs, message queues, and retry scaffolding, letting developers write clean happy-path code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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