# Paul Nordstrom: Why I joined Temporal

DevFeed: [Paul Nordstrom: Why I joined Temporal](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/paul-nordstrom-why-i-joined-temporal-35938.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://temporal.io/blog/paul-nordstrom-why-i-joined>)

Author: Paul Nordstrom

Published: 2022-03-15T07:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [Software Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software-engineering.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>), [Persistence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/persistence.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retry.md>), [Machine learning](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/machine-learning.md>)

Tags: [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code.md>), [ml](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ml.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [persistence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/persistence.md>), [retry](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/retry.md>), [software-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software-engineering.md>), [temporal-voices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/temporal-voices.md>)

## AI overview

Paul Nordstrom explains why he joined Temporal, describing its deterministic workflow processing model and how replay makes business logic durable while simplifying retries, error recovery, timers, and persistence.

## Source excerpt

Max and Samar's creation is, for me, similar in beauty and power to Euler's equation.