Prioritize Tasks, Allocate Compute Fairly, and Delight Your Customers with Temporal

Temporal has released task queue priority and fairness features now generally available in both open source and Temporal Cloud. Priority segregates tasks into virtual queues (levels 1-5) so higher-priority tenants like paid users always execute before lower-priority ones. Fairness uses a weighted round-robin dispatch via fairness keys to prevent any single tenant from crowding out others on shared infrastructure. A live demo using a Python Streamlit app shows both features in action. Fairness is free in open source but a paid add-on in Temporal Cloud (0.1 action charge per action). The team also discussed future roadmap items including per-tenant dispatch rate limiting, concurrency controls, and token-based rate limiting for LLM workloads.