# #234 - Building for Reliability: Durable Execution & Insights from Temporal's Report - Preeti Somal

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Podcast: [Tech Lead Journal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-lead-journal-633005)
Published: 2025-10-06T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/techleadjournal/episodes/234---Building-for-Reliability-Durable-Execution--Insights-from-Temporals-Report---Preeti-Somal-e3935k9
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How much of your code exists only to prevent failures? Discover a new paradigm for building reliable applications. In this episode, Preeti Somal, SVP at Temporal, explores a paradigm shift that can dramatically boost productivity and give developers peace of mind. Drawing on her experience leading massive infrastructure at Yahoo and HashiCorp, she explains Temporal’s concept of durable execution that helps developers focus on business logic and remove reliability concerns. Preeti also discusses key findings from Temporal’s first State of Development Report. In this episode, you will learn about: Lessons from operating large-scale systems at Yahoo and HashiCorp Why reliability ranks higher than cost for most engineering teams How durable execution removes reliability complexity from developer concerns Why unlearning old patterns proves harder than learning Temporal’s model Creating a strong incident response culture through blameless post-mortem Nurturing psychological safety in infrastructure teams and on-call engineers Building security and compliance from day one versus retrofitting later Timestamps: (00:00) Trailer & Intro (02:20) Career Turning Points (04:43) Key Learnings from Operating Large Scale Infrastructure (07:56) Key Learnings on Platform Engineering (09:59) Key Learnings on Maintaining High Reliability (12:02) Key Highlights Working at HashiCorp (13:52) Running Infra as Code using Temporal (15:28) Key Principles for Managing a Strong Incident Response (18:37) The Importance of Nurturing Psychological Safety within Infra Team (21:13) The Temporal’s State of Development Report (22:39) The State of AI Usage & Adoption (23:54) Using Temporal for Building AI Applications (26:06) The Complexities Involved in Building AI Applications (28:51) Key Learning…

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