THE DURABLE EXECUTION CONFERENCE FOR AI, BY TEMPORAL

MAY 5-7, 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA

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David Reiss

David Reiss

TITLE:Staff Software Engineer

COMPANY:Temporal

STATUS UPDATE

David Reiss works on a variety of scalable queueing problems at Temporal, most recently task queue priority and fairness. He also built the first version of Schedules and contributed to many other Temporal features. Before being converted to the religion of Durable Execution, he worked on infrastructure systems at Google and a few small startups.

TALK

Announcing Priority & Fairness for Temporal

ABSTRACT

We’re announcing Task Queue Priority & Fairness, giving you control over what runs first and ensuring workloads share resources efficiently. In this session, we’ll cover how it works, when to use it, and the real-world benefits for production systems. Includes a live demo so you can see it in action.