Temporal Go SDK developer's guide

This guide is meant to provide a comprehensive overview of the structures, primitives, and features used in Temporal Application development.

Guide structure

The Developer's guide is divided into the following sections:

1. Foundations: The minimum things required to build and run a simple Workflow with a single Activity.

   • Run a development Cluster
   • Add an SDK to your project
   • Create a Temporal Client
   • Develop a basic Workflow Definition
   • Develop a basic Activity Definition
   • Call to execute an Activity
   • Run a Worker Process
   • Start a Workflow Execution

2. Features: All the general features available to a Temporal Application.

   • Signals
   • Queries
   • Workflow timeouts and retries
   • Activity timeouts and retries
   • Activity Heartbeats
   • Async Activity Completion
   • Child Workflows
   • Continue-As-New
   • Schedules
   • Cron Jobs

3. Observability: Methods for observing a Temporal Application.

   • Metrics
   • Tracing
   • Logging
   • Visibility

4. Worker performance

   • Metrics
   • Configuration
   • Task Queue processing tuning
   • Workflow cache tuning
   • Invariants
   • Large value drawbacks