Replay Seattle 2024

We will present two use cases where we have leveraged Temporal at Turo.

For car rentals, guests would like to defer payment until the start of their reservation. Ensuring that the payment is triggered at the right time is crucial. We’ll describe our specific use case and detail its implementation and workflow design decisions. For example, use of notifications, scheduling, and error handling.

In order to showcase our selection of cars accurately at Turo, we maintain a catalog of car data for each country we operate in. We build this dataset by integrating with multiple data providers. The datasets change frequently as new cars are released and the import process for each dataset runs on a fixed schedule. Temporal has helped us process data in a reliable and efficient way. We will show how workflows have enabled us to easily spread the work across our application instances, how we are notified and act on workflow errors, and how the Temporal UI has assisted in monitoring the status of our long running jobs.