Architecting Bytes

Streaming Messages from Temporal Workers to SSE Clients

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Temporal recently put out a wonderful demo of using Temporal to make prod-ready OpenAI agents, and I’ve seen many around asking a particular question about Temporal itself:

How do I stream responses from Temporal?

It’s a natural question, given how often SSE responses are used with LLMs. There are a few ways to approach this problem, but I will focus on a singular solution. I implemented my own Worker(s) -> SSE stream implementation about a year ago to handle fan-out notifications, and will share it with you here. I do not prescribe that this is the ideal solution, instead, this is meant to tease out some creative solutions from you, the reader.

System Design Tips for MediaConvert

Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this post I’m going to share some tips on leading your AWS MediaConvert integration design with UX and SLA. I’ll do this by telling you a story about a fictional social media platform, VidBuddies, and its fictional CEO (my cat Patches).

Meet my cat Patches. She is an incredibly talented engineer and entrepreneur. Patches is building a social media video platform called VidBuddies where users (mainly other cats) can contribute content and interact with each other (think TikTok, or YouTube Shorts).

Running an Aesthetic Analysis ML System on Temporal

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Have we talked about Temporal?

Look, your author is not one to shill for a product. In fact, most of the time I approach products with cantankerous skepticism. But Temporal is special. The “durable execution” paradigm it champions is something the industry sorely needs.

In this talk, I demonstrate how we handle large-scale video aesthetic analysis, with Temporal as the backbone orchestration mechanism. Wrangling a machine learning (ML) workflow across dozens of executors and endpoints.

Hello World!

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

About Me

My name is Eric Ziegler, I am a Software Architect at The Washington Post (specifically in the Arc XP division). If you’ve watched a news video somewhere on the web besides TikTok and YouTube, there’s a good chance you interacted with code I’ve written. I work primarily with Python and Java, but occasionally also Rust and Kotlin.

When I’m feeling especially saucy, I dabble in multi-platform app construction. I also sometimes cobble together workable frontend code.

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