Owlcast

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/YXjbfc8ioV8 In this livestream, Chad Retz (Temporal SDK maintainer, 4+ years at Temporal) digs into the open source code that powers your workflows. We go beyond the surface and explore: Why Temporal is fully MIT licensed (and why that matters) The difference between the Temporal Server and the SDKs How the Pytho...

> Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/CMXCnbbiPoY Episode description Melanie and co-host Cecil Phillip are joined by James Bayer, CPO at Flox and a longtime infrastructure engineer from Pivotal and HashiCorp. James walks through reproducible software environments built on the Nix ecosystem — running the same Temporal environment directly on mac...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/N8Z-XIs_m8k Episode description Melanie is joined by Elizabeth Fuentes Leone (AI Engineer & Developer Advocate at AWS) and co-host Shubham Londhe to make the case that there's no agent without the harness: the code and infrastructure around the model that turns it into something you can run in production. Eli...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/-nuLcSKS1cI Melanie was joined by Xinyi Chen, a software engineer on Temporal's Cloud Growth team, and co-host Melissa McGregor from Temporal's docs team and author of the priority and fairness docs. Xinyi built priority and fairness into Temporal workflows from scratch, using a pizza shop with a single chef to m...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://youtu.be/rAY1ERVJLY4 Terry Ryan from Google walks us through Naval Plan, a real app he built (and actually uses) to plan sailing trips using ADK Go. The app combines agentic research — pulling from old sailing forums and local knowledge — with deterministic API calls for tides, weather, and sunrise/sunset data. We dig into how the ag...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/GMsIhP3RIHg Elvis Kaharu (Developer Advocate at dltHub) joined Melanie and co-host Cecil Phillip for a Vibe Check on building data pipelines in 10 minutes with dlt, the open source Python SDK for moving data from anywhere it lives. Elvis walked through how dlt fits between custom Python scripts and managed platfo...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/CXSHANydwig In this livestream, Donald (AI Foundations engineer at Temporal) and Mark Biza (DX engineer at Vercel) join us for a Vibe Check on skills — what they are, how to build them, and what they unlock for AI-assisted development. Donald previews the upcoming Temporal Agent Skill and live-demos it in Claude...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/jCQx4XvrEUk Holden Karau (Snowflake, formerly Databricks) and Lisa Cao (Databricks DevRel) joined us to dig into what it actually looks like to write Spark code with AI agents in 2026. We worked through a real example from Holden's High Performance Spark Second Edition — a Goldilocks-style exact percentiles probl...

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/fQGcbND0Uas Sarah Deaton, Technical Content Engineer at Anthropic and the person who owns the Claude Code docs, joined myself and my co-host Angela Zhou (Sr Technical Curriculum Dev @ Temporal) to walk through what's new and what's underused in Claude Code. We covered Claude Design for non-designers, the differen...

Day two of Vibe Check live from Replay 2026. Shabnam Emdadi, staff software engineer at Shopify and Temporal Constellation member, on what AI frameworks are rediscovering from distributed systems, why retries are more expensive in an LLM world, and the case for judgment over one-more-prompt addiction. Francesc Campoy, Go expert and JustForFunc creator, on his first take on Temporal after the Go wo...

Ritika Shrivastava from Ember Robotics talks about what the AI agent world is rediscovering that robotics has known for years, and where companies trip up scaling from one robot to a hundred. Brian Douglas from Paper Compute breaks down their work on agent runtime and durable session recording, and where context engineering is heading post-MCP. Beverly Lu from Chime walks through what it actually...