S8 E28: Maxim Fateev, Temporal

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Maxim Fateev grew up in the Soviet Union, and witnessed its collapse. He left in 1995, and moved to Brazil, where he got his Masters in Computer Science. In the late 90's, he moved to the US, eventually landing in Seattle, which loves. He's been married for 27 years, with 3 boys, and loves to hike, play ice hockey, and snowboard. He mentioned there were a number of choices, but he prefers Whistler in Canada, when he can make the 5 hour drive. During the development of open source services at Amazon, Maxim came across the idea of durable execution. Eventually, at Uber, he launched an open source library that eventually would become the basis of his current venture. This is the creation story of Temporal. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	In reality, the whole thing is just one big set of compromises.
0:06.0	For example, when we started the project, we didn't get official funding.
0:09.8	It was a bottom-up project, which was a really cool at Uber at a time, that you could start
0:14.6	project like that and still get support from your management and then get official funding
0:19.1	if it's successful. When we started the project, I told Samar, I don't like simple workflow design, even conceptually.
0:24.8	I want to redo all of that. His answer was, and he's very practical guy. He's like more
0:28.7	practical than I am. He said, there is no way, right? We have zero funding. We have no time.
0:33.5	We need to launch something. Let's just make something which looks like a simple workflow, at least on the high level.
0:39.4	My name is Maxim Fetif. I'm CEO and co-founder of Timporal.
0:46.7	This is Code Story. A podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries.
0:52.3	It's six months moonlighting.
0:53.9	There's nothing on the backcats.
0:55.8	Who share what it takes to change in industry.
0:58.3	I don't exactly know what to do next.
1:00.2	It took many goes to get right.
1:02.0	Who built the teams that have their back.
1:04.5	The company is its people.
1:06.1	The teams help each other achieve.
1:07.5	Most proud of our team.
1:09.1	Keeping scalability top of mind.
1:11.6	All that infrastructure is a pain.
1:12.8	Yes, we've been fighting it as a group.
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