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[ Documentation request ] Timer
Writing down my thoughts for this issue:
Timers implement delayed execution of Tasks in Workflows.
Temporal provides two APIs, workflow.Sleep and workflow.Timer, for implementing time based events in your Workflows.
Temporal ensures that the Timer settings persist and the events generate, even if Workers executing the Workflow crash.
@lorensr This is currently documented within the individual SDK guides — is this satisfactory, or do we want to see it in concepts? See https://docs.temporal.io/dev-guide/python/features#timers
I think it would be helpful to be in the glossary and to have a lang-agnostic place to link to. Content could be short and mostly link to dev guides?
I agree that we need a lang agnostic place to link to - We are building out a sdk features page that acts as a sort of reference for implementation examples across the sdks - There will be a concrete place to link to for this - and it will contain sufficient explanation.
We could also invest more into the "how an sdk works" - and talk about that and use timers as an example - that would be another great way to approach this.
Moving forward we are trying to spend the effort on contextualizing explanations if we can find ways to do that.
