# Bridging Pub/Sub to Temporal with Standalone Activities

DevFeed: [Bridging Pub/Sub to Temporal with Standalone Activities](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bridging-pub-sub-to-temporal-with-standalone-activities-35734.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/bridging-pub-sub-to-temporal-with-standalone-activities>)

Author: Houman Kargaran

Published: 2026-07-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Temporal Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/temporal-blog.md>)

Topics: [execution](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/execution.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/client.md>), [Latency](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/latency.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>)

Tags: [bridging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bridging.md>), [client](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/client.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [execution](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/execution.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [worker](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/worker.md>), [workflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/workflow.md>)

## AI overview

This guest post explains how Temporal Standalone Activities can connect Pub/Sub message handling to durable execution without wrapping each activity in a Workflow. It describes how this approach can reduce application-side retry, state-tracking, reconciliation, and monitoring complexity, while offering lower latency for short-lived activity executions.

## Source excerpt

How a Temporal Standalone Activity bridges Pub/Sub to Durable Execution, keeping your event handler thin.