Vibe Check: Priority, Fairness & Building Workflows from Scratch

Watch the video version for the demos and screen shares: https://www.youtube.com/live/-nuLcSKS1cIMelanie 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 make the concepts concrete before moving into live coding.Topics covered:Rate limiting, priority, and fairness as task queue features, explained with a pizza shop analogyBuilding the workflow from scratch live in an IDE with Claude and the Temporal Skill loadedRunning the logic as a standalone activityStarting workflows and activities directly from the Temporal Cloud UIWorkflow streams, now in public preview for Python with TypeScript coming soonResources:Task queue priority and fairness docs: https://docs.temporal.io/develop/task-queue-priority-fairnessTemporal AI cookbook: https://docs.temporal.io/ai-cookbookTemporal on GitHub: https://github.com/temporalioDatabricks Data + AI Summit: https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummitOriginally streamed June 11, 2026 on Vibe Check Temporal YouTube channel and you can watch the full episode at: https://www.youtube.com/live/-nuLcSKS1cI