Virtual Temporal Meetup: Saga without the Drama

​Orchestrating long-running distributed transactions doesn't have to be a tangled mess of compensating logic, half-failed states, and painful retries. In this meetup, we’ll demystify the Saga pattern and show you how Temporal takes the complexity out of coordination—so you can focus on what matters: business logic, not boilerplate.

​What You’ll Learn:

• ​The real-world pitfalls of implementing Sagas manually

• ​Why idempotency and retries are harder than they look

• ​How Temporal simplifies state, coordination, and failure recovery

• ​A hands-on walk-through of implementing a Saga-style workflow using Temporal

​Whether you're working with microservices, distributed systems, or trying to untangle a monolith, this talk will equip you with practical tools to model complex operations without the drama.

​In the second talk, we explore how Essent, the largest energy provider in the Netherlands, is driving radical IT modernization by replacing legacy systems with cloud-native and serverless solutions while transforming technology, people, and processes.

• ​Talk 1: Speaker Simon Emms (Temporal)

• ​Talk 2: Speaker Jeroen Vollenbrock (Essent)

​Stick around after the talk for a live Q&A and community networking session—bring your use cases, questions, or just hang out with fellow engineers over snacks or screen time.