Temporal for Beginners: Durable Execution Fundamentals

Name: Temporal for Beginners: Durable Execution Fundamentals
Rating: 4.1 (17 reviews)

Learn the fundamentals on how to create Durable applications using Temporal basics.

Created byNikolay Advolodkin

Last updated 10/2025

English

What you'll learn

What is Temporal
Why use Temporal
How to install Temporal on your local machine
How to orchestrate a Temporal workflow and view results

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 31m total length

Introduction0:08
Hello World4:21
Why Temporal?2:51
Temporal is an open source, durable execution platform that enables reliable distributed applications, productive development paradigms and code structure, and visible distributed application state, accelerating feature delivery.
Workflows0:39
Workflow Example0:34
Activities1:06
Explore activities as units of work and workflows that orchestrate them, with deterministic code enabling replay from event history for durable applications and non-deterministic ops in activities via idempotent operations.
Workers and Temporal Service1:26
Learn how Temporal workflows run on workers on your servers with a Temporal service. A web request triggers execution, task queues record events in history, and retries continue until success.
Temporal UI2:03
Start banking app3:32
Recover from a bug5:17
Quiz0:51
Quiz solutions5:52
Conclusion2:48
Finish temporal 101 and continue your learning by implementing temporal in production software, exploring temporal io, software development kits, docs, discord, and learning management system courses to grow.

Requirements

TypeScript experience
Experience with distributed systems

Description

In this course, you will learn some of the basics of using Temporal to create Durable applications that continue to operate. The course is written in TypeScript and covers some fundamental concepts. It's not an advanced course for advanced users. However, it will be a very fast guide to learn how to use the technology on your local machine.

You will learn:

What is Temporal
How to install Temporal
Workflows, activities, workers
And you will use a few dummy apps to see Durable execution

You will make minor code changes.

By the end of the course, you will understand how to manage your own temporal workflows, create simple activities, start a temporal service, and view the execution of a workflow in Temporal UI.

Also, you will get an introduction to the Temporal CLI to install and manage the server.

This course is for:

Anyone who is trying to build robust applications that require durable execution, such as LLMs, AI applications, Agents, and message queues, among others.
Anyone looking to stabilize the performance of their distributed systems.

This course is not for:

Advanced Temporal users who have been using Temporal for more than a few days
Engineers looking to learn how to implement Temporal in a production-level system
Engineers looking for advanced solutions to distributed systems.

Who this course is for:

Software engineers that are looking to build robust distributed systems
Software engineers looking to learn Temporal