Announcing Major Worker Improvements @ Replay 2026 | W/ Temporal Software Engineers
summary
Announces that Temporal now routes running workflows to immutable worker deployment versions, letting new workflows start on a marked current version while pinned workflows drain; worker-versioning is GA and upgrade-on-continue-as-new is in public preview. Introduces a server-side worker control plane and pre-release serverless workers for AWS Lambda and upcoming GCP Cloud Run worker pools, with autoscaling and per-version scaling. Shows a live demo of Lambda deployment, Kubernetes worker controller, and the new worker insights UI.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47Why change management is hard
- 3:17Making changes safe with versioning
- 10:37Running workers with serverless
- 14:10Cloud Run partnership
- 17:48How serverless workers scale
- 23:46Development with serverless workers
- 25:33Worker insights in UI
- 26:37Demo of serverless workers
- 31:58Running workers on Kubernetes
- 33:01Kubernetes worker controller
- 37:00Demo of Kubernetes autoscaling
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