- Temporal, a Seattle-based startup raises $18.75M
- The company raised a total of $25.5 million after this round
- It plans to offer a Temporal-as-a-Service offering soon
- Madrona Ventures, a new investor also joined Temporal this year.
Temporal is an open-source microservices orchestration engine for running mission-critical code at any scale. It is a perfect fit for orchestrating microservices. The company announced that it has raised an $18.5 million Series A funding. The round was led by Sequoia Capital.
It included existing investor Addition Venture and Amplify partners. A new investor Madrona Ventures also joined the group. This brings the total funding to $25.5 million. Temporal is founded by Maxim Fateev (CEO) and Samar Abbas (CTO). They created an open-source Cadence orchestration engine when they were at Uber.
The company aims to make it easier for developers and operators to run microservices in production. The current users include the likes of Box and Snap. Fateev says “before microservices, coding applications was much simpler”.
Resources were always located in the same place -the monolith server with a single DB. It means that the developers didn’t have to codify a bunch of guessing. Microservices, on the other hand, are highly distributed. It means developers need to coordinate changes across a number of servers.”
The servers could go down at any time so engineers often spend a lot of time on it. They were busy making custom reliability code to make calls to these services. Temporal gives these developers access to see a set of ‘reliability primitives”. “This means developers spend far more time writing differentiated code,” said Fateev.
Temporal target use is virtually any developer who works with microservices. It wants them to be reliable. Despite offering a read-only web-based user interface for administering and monitoring the system isn’t the main focus here. The company has no plans to create a no-code/low-code workflow builder. Temporal users build their own solutions on top of it.
Future aspects of Temporal
The company will soon be offering a cloud-based Temporal-as-a-Service. The company plans to use the new funding to improve its tool and cloud services. It is planning to launch it into general availability next year.
Temporal is also planning to say true to its open-source roots and host events. It will provide more resources to its community.
“Temporal enables Snapchat to focus on building the business logic of a robust API system. It will not require a complex state management infrastructure” says Steven Sun. He is the Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer at Snap. “ This has improved the efficiency of launching our services for the Snapchat community”.
