Workday Dev Program GitHub & Orchestrate Enhancements | DPUC August 2026

0:00Technology. Boom. Welcome everybody to this month's edition of the Developer Program Update Call. We are recording and my name is Nick Moores, Head of Developer Relations at Workday. Folks, if you

0:12haven't figured it out yet, let me give you a big fat hint.

0:18We are all in person together in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. We just hiked up a quote unquote easy trail. I will tell you, as someone that lives at sea level, we're at, what, 6,000 feet? Roughly. Yeah, you can feel it, my friends. Like, am I old or yes.

0:35Maybe both, maybe both. Please review our safe harbor product statement. I think it's going to show up multiple times in this call on purpose, because we can't help ourselves. We want to give you all the good stuff. Please don't make purchasing decisions based off of the good stuff!

0:49All right, I'm going to come in hot right from the beginning. Just now, we have opened up Workday Developer MVP applications for 2026. There is a link that might come in the chat soon. I think Tony's getting his badge downstairs.

1:05Um, on the developer forum, just go to the news section, and you can see the post for this year. There's a SurveyMonkey application.

1:13Actually, Obina, tell us a bit about the Mvp program. Yeah. What's good? So obviously at the MVP program is, you know, a group of people who we have in our community to represent you all,

1:24and we want

1:25you to be a part of it. It's we're in a unique position right now where, you know, we're opening up the developer ecosystem, and.

1:33You have the chance to be part of this program to give us early feedback. We have public recognition for the work that you're doing, the contributions that you have, and yeah, we want you to be a part. So please sign up. We want to see your applications, and you'll be in the midst of all these awesome books.

1:50And even more about Workday, so that's, you know, a great opportunity.

1:53Hell yeah. So I think we started very strong with our first year of the program. You saw these folks on stage at DevCon. You saw them running Chalk talks. You've seen them on broadcast.

2:05On podcast, they've given loads of amazing feedback to Workday as well. Super duper thankful for our MVPs. It's a yearly re-up process, so we're not saying it's going to be a brand new set of, like, 15 people, but we are opening the doors to new applicants. So we would love to hear from you.

2:22Uh, and have direct conversations about your interest in the program. More news to come soon. We intend to announce the cohort at rising in October. So we want you to be the face of our developer program, much like Sam Rica is.

2:37And because Sam is awesome!

2:40All right. can you believe it? Nick? Why is there another product statement slide? Here's why this is like super duper product statement, because I want to tease something that we intend to reveal to you next week, something that you can sign up for.

2:55to express interest for, for something that I think is going to change the ecosystem forever, and you're going to hear it first from us right now. I'm going to do the short version of my stump speech. If you're stuck with me in an elevator on why the developer community matters.

3:11I promise is going somewhere. So you heard us last year announce Workday build our developer platform for people, for money, for agents. We've got tools. We've got amazing partner ecosystem. We've got community.

3:23But it's not actually easy to get all of those things today. Easier said than done. Access to the tools is contingent on you being employed by a partner, you being employed by a customer, your customer having access to Xyz skew, your access to the ecosystem.

3:38is also contingent on all those things, and Workday is making some big changes. So just a reminder, we empower you. We are your voice within Workday as developer relations. We are your voice to the world.

3:51But even more importantly, it's not about us, it's not the DevRel show, it's the you show. We are investing in amplifying your voice. We actually just talked with our CTO, Gabe yesterday at our offsite. He is all in on this as well. We are the voice of you, the developer.

4:07Uh, and I think to give you a better voice, we're going to need to make some changes. So there are huge, gigantic double safe harbor product statement things in the works.

4:18Uh, and it'll make sense why I'm telling you about this in a second. But as you know today, if you've been around as long as I have, or as Chris has, the ecosystem, the dev program itself.

4:28Closed. Chris Bledsoe in his hearting words to me is like, Nick, the dev program must be open. And so it's my duty to Chris to make this happen.

4:39Right? Preaching to the choir. You gotta be a customer or partner to even have access to the dev site, log in. Pro certifications. You can't just get certified. You switch companies. Certification does not transfer easily. You can't necessarily access an environment where you can build on hands-on with Workday, where you can learn about Workday, where you can actually engage with our APIs.

4:59and build your career. So again, double double product statement statement.

5:06In the future, we are working toward a more open developer program. Our vision is for anyone to create in a platform, anyone to start building, anyone to be able to get certified, and you own your frickin' certification. So you don't have to do a mountain of paperwork.

5:21to get it from place to place to place to place.

5:24You all are the heart… the beating heart of this community. What if you could tell everyone around you, your friends, your family, hey, this career changed my life. It'll change yours, too. Hop on the party bus. We want prospective developers to be able to get psyched for that.

5:40We want to be able to send Prima to every city in India, especially Goa, and get everyone excited to join the ecosystem. It needs to be easier to learn to build and grow your career. I don't have a sexy slide for this, but something that we intend to launch in the next.

5:55week or so is a proper wait list. If that sounds like something that lights your fire like it lights mine.

6:04There is going to be a waitlist to apply for an open developer program. If you are part of our Mvp program, you have access to this. If you've been at developer days like on premise hat, you have access to this. It's in like super duper pilot mode right now.

6:20But we are going to launch this to the world very soon. So we're going to put out a wait list. We will blast it on social media and beyond so that you know. But we want to let you know right now. If that sounds like you, be on the lookout for a wait list that will live on the developer site.

6:36that says, yes, I want to be a part of this, and we want your feedback on what would make this awesome. What are you not seeing? Uh, it's gonna be great. Did I miss anything, folks? I want to summarize everything you said in four words. Please, do it. Speak, friend, and enter. Yay! Hell yeah. That's also the name of my Wi-Fi.

6:54Yeah, you shall not password. Do not hack into my Wi-Fi. All right. This is a photo from about 45 min ago. So I am still rocking some shorts and a hat because I have crazy hair. So we just did a trek together in Boulder, Colorado.

7:13Uh, but this is the path before us, my friends. We're gonna climb this mountain, we're gonna have the best selfie ever. Uh, Prema's gonna tell us about Developer Days Australia. We've got updates from product. Thank you, Product, we love you. We've got DevRel updates to program updates, and then Q&A. Prima…

7:28Hello. Hey, thanks, Nick, and I missed the bolder trick, but see you next year, guys.

7:29Take it away, my friend.

7:35So we'll be having a bolder Trek together. But yeah.

7:38If anyone has a US visa, US visa. Sorry.

7:45So that's the toughest thing an Indian can get right now. So yeah.

7:51But

7:52Golden ticket.

7:53So starting with hello folks. This is Prema Adlapudi, your senior Developer Advocate for the Indianapac region. And the current picture which you are looking at right now is taken like exactly a month back in Bengaluru.

8:08This is the whole group photo of the Developer Days Bengaluru event, and it was all fun. And

8:14Since the entire event was fun, we are not stopping with another. Next, go to the next slide

8:19Yes, sir.

8:20So since our Bengaluru edition of Developer Days has been a huge success for us, we are going to do another Developer Day event, but not in India, but in a different country. So anyone, any guesses so far?

8:35Hmm…

8:38I haven't seen… yeah, you go… you guys are great. It's not Canada. Who has Canada

8:41Canada. Love

8:47it.

8:48Yeah, Australian is then almost right, so… next slide, Nick.

8:50Yep.

8:52This is an AI-generated image. We don't have any rights of, like, hosting WorkV on top of Okra. So we are conducting the Developer Days, the built on Workday Developer Days in Sydney, Australia in September 15th and 16th.

9:07So, next slide, Nick. So, since the last event was successful, we are following the same format, but with a different set of people and atmosphere over there. So it will be a two day event with two different tracks. One track is for built on Workday folks and the next track is for the open developer folks. For the built on Workday folks, it would be like

9:27knowing how they can build more production grade applications, best practices, but for the open developers, it will be like getting the fundamentals on their hand, and how to use the agents inside the Work ecosystem and post the boat tracks are done. We will be having a hackathon

9:45It's supposed to be 24 hours, so we are having, like, 23.5 hours, so… 23 here… 23 hours of hackathon. And then

9:56So if you are a BOW partner, if you want to participate in this hackathon, drop a mail. And if you are an open developer who just want to come to the event and gain insights of how to develop an application inside the Workday Developer ecosystem, this is your QR code

10:12We'll be having this QR code for multiple seconds. Scan it, fill it up

10:16See you there in Australia.

10:23Yep

10:24Amazing, and we have a Luma calendar spun up for this, so we'll drop that in the chat as well. You can see how to express interest in the Open Developer Track for City Developer Days.

10:30Dropped it right away, over here.

10:34Like, it's hot. Thank you.

10:39Thanks, Nick.

10:40All right. Thank you, Prima. Right to Steph. Dan. I forgot to check in with you if you were here. He's here. He's here. Dimash. Let's make you a presenter. I'm going to allow him to talk at the very least. Oh, there we go.

10:52All right.

10:53Is that Gucci? Oh, yeah. Those dulcet tones takes me back. What's up, Dan?

10:57Not much. How's everyone doing?

10:58Doing

10:59good, doing good.

11:01I was just thinking that, like, I need some sort of double secret

11:06access to this call that I don't have, but…

11:09Sorry about that.

11:10We'll make do. We'll make do with what we have

11:11Yeah. Next slide.

11:13Cool. All right, so I'm going to talk about a couple of enhancements that we came out with at the beginning of our fiscal quarter here in August

11:25And they'll hopefully make

11:29The lives of orchestration

11:32developers a whole lot easier. So, we've made some enhancements to our expression builder, Condition Builder, which is within Expression Builder, and our Create Value steps.

11:44So there are basically some usability improvements, making it faster and easier to build and refine complex expressions and conditions. So what are the changes? Well, first and foremost, we now have a pop-out to the expression builder window

12:01Or I should say expression builder field into an expression builder window that's movable and resizable and stays in sync with the original expression builder field that you're editing.

12:16So, if you're looking at that, you know, the little screenshot, the first one at the top, in addition to the related… in addition to the related actions button on the right-hand side

12:27There's, you know, an option to expand the view, and that's what opens up this input editor. So, yeah, that's change number one. Number two is some updates to our conditional builder

12:41You get some autosave, you get the ability to duplicate conditions

12:48So that you can, you know, easily copy and paste and, you know, kind of redo conditions that are probably very similar to the previous one with just some slight alterations without having to recreate everything from scratch

13:01See you.

13:03Also, autosave has been introduced to the condition editor.

13:08No big deal.

13:10What's that?

13:11I

13:12said, no big deal. You're making it rain, man. It's crazy.

13:13Yeah, no big deal. Yeah. One of the things that people were tripping up on, you know, like we had autosave with the rest of everything, but then when he got to condition editor, oops, you know.

13:23Yeah.

13:24You didn't save? Too bad. Well, now, oops, you didn't save. Great! We save for you.

13:31And then one of the you know

13:35most annoying things and that people wanted to talk about, which was like

13:43If conditions are true and if conditions are false, how about we default to true and false within the condition builder? We didn't do that before, but no, now I guess we will. I mean

13:49Mmm.

13:54You know, whatever.

13:56So, yeah.

14:06Oh my God.

14:07So that's our condition editor enhancements. And then last but not least, reordering create value steps with drag and drop. So I think the GIF at the bottom says it all

14:13Yeah, self-explanatory

14:14So good.

14:16That's incredible.

14:18Yep, yep. And we've gotten a suggestion to add that to like some other areas like CSV or CSV schema and things like that. And that's a great idea. And that's something that we'll be working on in the future.

14:33So yeah.

14:35Those are our enhancements, and we hope that you find that there's less scrolling, less back and forth

14:42Less or no missed saves and no more having to delete and rebuild just to change the order of your create values expressions.

14:53Yep.

15:01Yep, yep.

15:02It's amazing. I haven't been this excited since the Seahawks won the Super Bowl. High praise, high praise. It's a big freaking deal. I joke, but not really about people at altitude standing and applauding when they let you have multi-line anvil expressions.

15:18Yep

15:19Uh, I'm not standing because I'm wearing shorts, uh, and I'm on camera. But Dan, this is… this is well beyond that. This is it. This is it.

15:21Thank you so much, man. Amazing feedback in the chat. And yes, Kevin, great to see you. Boulder's pretty nice. You should visit sometime. All right. With that, we are going to transition to the amazing, incredible Mr. Stephen G. Nice picture, by the way, I could not find that fast enough. So thanks for the.

15:38Thanks for the assist.

15:39No problem. All right, thanks, Nick. I appreciate the time. I'm going to kick it off on some important topics that we have today. So let's talk a little bit about a new metrics UI that we're going to roll out for Xtend. If you skip over to the next slide

15:54One of the things that we're going to look at is we are evaluating how we do metrics as a part of our monitoring and logging platform

16:04And one of the things that we're doing is we want to be able to actually start to roll out a new UI for a lot of you guys, and as a part of that, what we're doing is one of my product managers, Abhinav, has gone in and made a post to sign up as an early adopter for this new metrics UI. So here it'll give you the opportunity to provide us with some feedback

16:25And then also let you leverage the new UI that we were going to have that's rolling out. So, I encourage everyone to go check out the forum post, sign up as an early adopter, give Ammanaf a lot of feedback so that you guys can be able to help shape the future of where we're going in terms of monitoring and logging.

16:43So pretty cool to be able to see. Let's turn it over to the next topic

16:49And so this is a big one, and I know this will impact a lot of developers. We've already started this in a lot of the other regions that we have, and now we're going to start to roll it out in Germany and to the United States. So if you skip over to the next slide

17:06What we are going to do is

17:09All development tenants that currently end, and you'll see the tenant alias that you see that end in this WCP dev are going to expire out, and they're going to be automatically deleted.

17:21And so what's gonna happen is over a period of time, we're gonna start to expire out these existing tenants, and you will get new additional tenants to be able to use. You will have to provision those yourselves. And the reason we're doing this is, if you skip to the next slide for me

17:36is that we're actually going to prepare our dev tenant infrastructure to kind of really work with some new functionality. So we talked at DevCon about this new ability to be able to do input deployment on demand, and we talked a lot about developer agents. And so to prepare for that, we actually had to make some changes in the infrastructure, and we need new development tenants to be created

17:57And I know for a lot of you, there's configuration, there's applications that are already in this development tenant. And so there's going to be work for you to be able to do. And so what is that work that's going to happen? So if you go to the next slide for me

18:12I'm going to tell you what it mean

18:13Yep.

18:15So, starting on August 13th, we'll start to roll out, we'll do a phased rollout, in which we'll have existing development tenants that are in Germany. After 60 days, they'll get deleted, and then the U.S. region will follow. So what'll happen is org admins will start to receive an email notification beginning 30 days prior to the deletion of the tenant

18:38And they will continue to receive those in 2 weeks, and then a week before, and then 3 days, and then the day before the tenant is going to expire. And what we're going to do is we also want you to be able to say, hey, I understand I could be leveraging 3 tenants, or I've already provisioned one tenant already, how do I get another one

18:59Well, we're gonna allow you to be able to provision an additional tenant at no additional cost. So on our side, we're going to go ahead and allow you to provision an additional tenant. There's no changes that you will have to make. You will see the create button, the create tenant button enabled again

19:15And you will be able to create a new tenant on this updated infrastructure that can support input on demand, as well as developer agents. So that'll give you about 60 days worth of time. You'll start to see an expiration. So when you looked at that screenshot that I showed 2 slides back.

19:33You'll start to see there's expiration on the existing what we would call legacy development tenants that will continue to show, and then you can provision that additional tenant, and our ask is that you migrate over any configuration or applications onto the new dev tenant

19:50You'll have a 60-day period where both the old tenant and then the tenant that you'll have… the new tenant that you've created will be up and running at the same time, so you can do… use during that migration period

20:02And then the other thing is, if you've already enabled PRISM on that old development tenant, you will need to go in and re-enable Prism on the new tenant. So, again, I put a link to that form so that if Prism needs to be enabled, that will obviously… you'll fill out that form, and then we'll get

20:22The development tenant enabled with Prism on there. So couple of asks that I have for you guys is, as we roll this out in preparation, there will obviously be some period of time, like 60 days that you'll have to move configuration and applications over to this new development tenant

20:39And we will automatically delete the tenant after that 60-day period has expired. You won't have the ability to be able to extend that. And so our ask is you take that time to be able to do this migration during that period endpoint in time

20:54Okay, I know it's kind of that's a hot topic. If there are any questions, I'm happy to take them. I don't see anything in the chat right now, which is great. So I think I did a really good job of explaining it, but it is a big change

21:09But I think it's a change for the better because in the end it will actually end up supporting kind of the new functionality and features that we're going to be rolling out. So it's all in all, as we continue to improve upon what we're doing, this continues to be one of those things that we're doing.

21:26Do you… yeah.

21:27A couple questions that are coming and I will address them now. Sorry. Will we be able to back migrate from prod to the new dev tenant? So there is no capability to be able to backtrack or back migrate anything that's been created into a development tenant will need to be recreated and then apps will need to

21:46republished into the new Developer Tenants.

21:51This is going to kick off for Germany first, and then we'll roll out to the US region in the coming months.

21:59Okay, let's see. For customers who are in the India region, this actually already happened. So there's no work that needs to happen for that one.

22:10And then the other last question that I see is, do these dev tenants have prod data? No. So remember, these are the development tenants and they will have based on what you've selected, either GMS, AMU, or Gov

22:27One other question, where does it show if the dev tenant is located in Germany? This depends on what region your organization is located in. And you can see that by going to your profile and seeing which region your organization is associated to.

22:44Other question that I see, how long will cust dev tenants live for? So right now they will continue to live for a period of time. I do think going long term

23:00Thinking about operationally and how we want to

23:04leverage these development tenants. The one thing that you will see is they'll probably start to implement a time to live on developer tenants as well going forward. I think it's, you know, for performance, ensuring that everything is up to date. Those will start to roll out as well. But I don't have a date timeline for this point

23:23for being able to say like how long custom tenants will live for.

23:28And yes, this will apply for all dev tenants. This is not just customer dev tenants. This will apply for both partner and built-on Workday tenants.

23:40A lot of good questions coming in. I do want to keep it moving along. So I think I answered most of the ones, so I'll turn it back over to Nick. If there's additional questions, we'll be doing a post in the forum. Feel free to go ahead and

23:56Adding in additional questions that you will have going forward there.

24:01Thank you. And Vanessa has been crushing it in the Q&A section for you, Steven, as well.

24:04Thanks.

24:06Yeah. Yeah, go team. Thank you so much for coming on, being able to share. And there's a couple more that are coming in chat that I'm sure we can handle async. And again.

24:17I have had deaf tenants that have lived for two years, and boy, are they slow. Yeah. Even for that reason alone, it's good hygiene to spend some up more often. But for the dev agent features, for the other infrastructure features, like.

24:33Uh, input deploy on demand. I think is a good call. But thank you for giving us a heads up, Stephen.

24:39Yeah, my dead tenants are all drinking age now. Yeah, yeah. All right, with that, let's see if Kip can reach the microphone. Kip, I think it'll work. Hopefully everyone can hear me. How y'all doing? So good. So good, Kim. So, I wanted to talk to you all quickly about the Developer Pulse Survey.

24:57For those of you who

24:58have been with

24:59us for a while, you'll remember this from last year, but every year, we send out an annual survey basically to check out how we're doing, right? How y'all are feeling about the program, the tools, what we're doing well, what we're not doing so well, what you'd like to see in the future. It's coming out again.

25:13And within the next week, it should hit your inbox. And so we wanted to ask you to make you aware of it, and ask you to take a look when it does come out. It will take less than 4 minutes to get through the whole thing. It's super important because we look at this.

25:28this information throughout our organization, and it informs a lot of what we're doing in the future with the roadmap, and more importantly, in some cases, the changes that we want to make to the program to be more of what you all want to see. So please, please, please take a couple of minutes, uh.

25:43give us your voice and let us know what you're liking, what you're not liking, and uh… and uh… let us know what we can… what we can do better.

25:52Amen,

25:53yeah, it's really… it goes all the way up, and we want to hear from you. So the more responses, the better, the bigger the sample, the better.

26:01All right, I'm going to turn it back over to Mr. Obina, tell us all about. I'm sure that was cute. Sorry. Tell us all about GitHub. Yeah, all right. So if

26:11you saw last week, we just opened up a new GitHub repository. This is because we want to create examples that live publicly, like you've seen.

26:19The theme is, like, changing a bit more to, like, having more open developers in the platform. We want to see examples. So the type of examples that exist on this repository are, like, extend apps, integrations apps, um, orchestrations, you name it, agent skills, reference docs, we want you to contribute.

26:36And the ones that are labeled…

26:40Workday, we take ownership of, so we'll keep them up to date. This, um, if you're familiar with, you know, the app catalog, some of those examples are already ported over. We have a new UI. I've also, um, shared the repository, so you can also go there, see how to contribute. We'll be making a lot of videos about this, uh.

26:56Tony, you want to say something? Uh, yeah, so we actually do the live stream, and you guys will get a link to that

27:03particular live stream in a minute here, but we kind of walked through the lovely UI that Abina put together for it, and there is some other cool samples that are not in the app catalog.

27:13And there will be definitely more coming soon. Yeah. So please

27:17contribute, and yeah, we'll always review this, and we're building more examples and showing them publicly on, like, YouTube and other platforms that you all would be on. Um, so yeah, that's the… that's the first new stuff.

27:29And

27:30just a yes and, like, we've been trying to give a space for you to be able to share what you're building for years. You've seen the barren wasteland of our, like, contributed solutions page on the dev forum. Community has this as well. So I think it's really, really freaking cool that we're finally doing this on GitHub the proper way. So thank you to this team for making that happen.

27:51Sure. So yeah, the next

27:53thing that I want to talk about is something that, because obviously we're having orchestrations on GitHub, and the way that orchestrations are exported from app builder right now are in Jason.

28:08And because we want you to contribute your projects, and we want you to be able to see how these are viewed.

28:13We built a plugin or an extension, if you will, that sits in your VS Code and allows you to just view orchestrations. Now, quick notes, quick disclaimer. This is not a replacement for orchestration

28:26builder. That's why we got Dan

28:29here. Very quick disclaimer. This is just a way for viewing.

28:33the orchestrations within the spirals, um, so viewing them within VS Code environments, broadcast environments. I can show a pic demo if… Yeah, let's try it.

28:41What's the worst that could happen? Yeah, you know. Door live. Yeah. Do it live. Every

28:46one of those are cheeky demo.

28:48I love it. She's the demo.

28:52So if you're familiar with VS Code or the like, so when you open up an orchestration file, it sort of looks like this, right? And this is good because it contains all the information that you need to understand how the orchestration works. But if you're contributing an, um.

29:07one of your applications to our GitHub, this isn't really human readable. So, what I've done is essentially just make a way to pass the information that's already there, firstly clean up the JSON, because, like, everyone loves a predefined, and then gets, like, you know, this very nice, um.

29:23Look, going, and then… and this is actual… this is an actual orchestration application, by the way. So it's not just Omni. I'm really just allowing you to view this within VS code. So this is just a viewer. You click on it. You see what that means. And I think it's a cool way to just share code within friends. And we're trying to, you know, create that open community where people can.

29:43contribute, and yeah, so I've just dropped a link to the… to the GitHub repo, and this is… you can also find it on a… you can also find it on…

29:53VS Code marketplace, and that would allow you to install it. I'm going to try and maintain it, you know, we're going to work internally to see how we… how we want to expand this, but yeah, I think it's a very cool addition to our current workflow.

30:07Hell yeah, and you just, you saw from Dan, like, why Orchestration builder is still where you should be building, for God's sake. Yes. Like…

30:15The gorgeous, like, drag and drop and everything, like, that's where we want you to build. This is just meant for you to be able to more easily, like, grok or scan what's going on in a sample that's been contributed. Yeah, and also, just

30:26to note that this is open source, so if you see an issue, you see a way that, oh, this doesn't work, or that doesn't make any sense.

30:34Please open issues, please open… I've just dropped the repository there as well, open issues, let us know what you think, and yeah, looking forward to hearing your feedback on that. And also, another plug, um, next week, I'm going to be doing some videos on.

30:49How this is our… how this actually works, so explaining how the parser works, like, how, you know, I'm really just reading JSON and cleaning it up, so that's really…

30:58that's a really good way to understand how it works.

31:02And there

31:03are a couple videos on the channel, um, so yeah, please.

31:06Like, subscribe, and look out for the next series. That's… that's all for me.

31:11Oh yeah, thank you, Avina.

31:13All right, let's throw it to the recently birthday boy himself. Tony Gilplin. This edition of Tony time. By the way. I forgot it was still in there.

31:28I love it.

31:31You guys might have heard of agentic tooling at this point. I have.

31:44Say more.

31:46Within that is a context window. There's a lot of thought around prompt engineering, but not a whole lot around context engineering. If you go to the next slide. Well, there

31:59we go. That's cool. So there's

32:01a principle of… we're just going to roll with this.

32:06I've lost in the middle of the context window is really good at grabbing the last and the beginning part of the context window when it gets big enough. And so when you create a bunch of stuff that inevitably ends up in the middle.

32:22of your contacts window, it gets lost. So, this is kind of that curve of what it knows and what it can retrieve accurately. So you see, like, when you're looking for that stuff in the middle, it literally gets lost into, like, maybe a coin flip of whether or not you're going to find it.

32:39So, I'm gonna talk about a few different ways that we can mitigate this when we're building our agents.

32:45Let's go to the next slide here, Nick. I'm trying, brother. Yeah. Don't worry about it. So again, keeping the facts out of the middle. So basically, where you're putting the information and where the information is able to be retrieved from. If you go to the next slide.

33:02The first one is compaction. This one is probably no surprise to anybody, but essentially, when you get to a large enough context window, you can compact it, and what it's really doing is summarizing that context window. So then that summary is in the beginning of your context window instead of being spread out.

33:20over 120 million tokens, um, and that really gives it the power to be able to see that context window really clearly. Um, and then if we go to the next one, this one's a little bit less obvious, but putting those key facts on the edges. So when you think about your context window.

33:39Um, re-prompting when you give the latest message, when you're doing important facts. Um, so when you're talking to an agent, and you think that it's basically forgotten what you're talking about, this is kind of where that concept comes into play, because you have to remind it of things that it has kind of forgotten that's fallen into that middle void.

34:00So when you are… do reprompt, it gives it that recall of what you just gave into the last message, and then, consequently, on the other side of things, you can put things into your system prompt, or a memory layer. I don't get into that here, but effectively, if you put it.

34:18In the layer that comes before your prompt, and then they'll always be able to see that as a… as it's the, you know, the beginning of the context window, not that middle part. So, we're really just trying to avoid everything falling into that gap when you get a really large context window.

34:37Uh, let's go to the next slide here.

34:40And then here is… okay, I mentioned memory, so if you create structured memory that exists within your agent, so if you say, you know, it's either got different files that it should always be pulling a you know a skill that knows to go and pick a particular piece of information.

35:01This is where that information is able to not get lost in that context window. So you're able to kind of think of it like a database sort of situation, where it's able to pull memory outside of the context window to pull it in so it knows what you're looking at when you're trying to get at it.

35:19It was really a questionnaire. If we shorten the window and put facts at the edges, total recall, you would call it a total recall.

35:28Well, Arnold reference there.

35:31And then, uh, so if you guys like this, or would like to learn more, again, me and Obina had a wonderful live stream on Friday that was pretty funny. We did a… not just the GitHub walkthrough, but we pivoted Grok and Claude against each other.

35:47Um, spoiler alert, Grok didn't think it was better than Claude. It admitted it out loud. It admitted it. So, take that for what you will, but, uh, I plan on doing a lot more stuff with agents and ASOR and all the good stuff that will be coming inevitably at Rising, so…

36:06Uh, like, subscribe, and we'll see you online, guys.

36:10Oh yeah, that's awesome. I thought that Grok would have become self-aware first.

36:14Yeah, yeah,

36:15actually self-aware. It's not in the way you thought. All right, CJ, I threw this in there for a reminder of cool learning program stuff. Hi, everybody, and that was really cool. It's funny.

36:26Thanks for that info. And uh…

36:29This

36:30is, as we're heading towards the open developer site.

36:33We are working with Workday Education to update our content and tutorials.

36:40Um, which enables you, developers, to start fast and build real Workday apps and integrations through hands-on quick start guides.

36:50Um, next slide. Yep. So, so to do this, these are just some of the key topics that.

36:58new developers on the Workday developer platform would benefit from everything from just navigating all the tremendous amount of

37:07resources on the Workday Developer platform.

37:09to designing pages that both display Workday data as well as get user inputs and push them, uh, post them back to Workday APIs. Build custom data models and business processes using our model components.

37:25And building orchestrations to automate workflows, so…

37:29These are some of the things that are making sure are.

37:34Have the latest updates and can get you started fast.

37:38Love it. Love it. Thank you, CJ. With that, we will

37:41throw it to Shriya. Shrea. What's up? Hey, well, I'm excited to be boulder. I am excited to be in Boulder. I'll get used to the altitude right when it's time to leave. I know, I know, right? I was like, I came here, and I'm like, what's wrong with me? Why am I feeling

37:56bad? Alright.

37:57Well, I've got a cool thing. So, of course, you can contribute to our developer block, right? With the opening

38:01of the ecosystem, there's a lot more places where you can contribute, and we want to hear your story. Even if it's as simple as it's a cool use case that you built out that you want to talk about and brag about, or it's your own career journey, how did you get into Workday?

38:14All that, anything at all, we want your pitch, we want your draft, and once submitted, the editorial team on our team will review the proposal and work with you on the editing published. So please contribute to our developer blog. This is a super cool opportunity, and there's going to be more info about this very soon.

38:31Alright, next is, of course, we've got a cool developer meetups program, so please go ahead and host your own developer meetup. You organize a 2 to 3 hm meetup for your local community. You can earn the title of Workday Developer Ambassador, and I'll have some exciting updates about this very soon.

38:47And please go ahead and fill out the form, and I'll be in touch with more information. Even if you're just curious about how it all works, absolutely reach out. I can happily guide you to the right place. I've got a lot of resources, and we're really here to support you so that you can amplify and lead the meetup in your local city.

39:06Love it. All right. And of course, don't forget the outstanding contributor awards where you win a swag package of workday developer gear. It's the top 5 of the leaderboard every quarter. I will be announcing the Q2 Outstanding contributors next month. So stay tuned for that.

39:24All right, um, and yeah, that's great, and please continue to use the forum every day and find

39:32that leaderboard. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing.

39:34That one? Yes, this

39:36leaderboard. Nice.

39:37So yes, engage on the forum, climb the leaderboard. There's going to be so many ways that you can contribute here, and if you have any ideas of how you want to incentivize other aspects of what you do on the leaderboard, let me know. I want to know.

39:51All that… all those cool ideas that you have.

39:53Alright. we are going to upcoming events. But really quick I'm going to throw it to. Yeah, sorry,

40:00Katrina Voss, you're looking swagged out in this photo of my man. Super jealous.

40:05Needs to

40:06be your forum. Yeah. With that, we throw it to…

40:10The influencer, Chris Humphrey, live in Boulder.

40:15Greetings,

40:16everybody.

40:17I have one slide that we're gonna go over today, but I'm going

40:20to talk a little bit. So the next developer program deep dive call is

40:24in a couple weeks, August 25th, 9:00 AM Pacific. We would love to have you there. But I want to talk a little bit about the deep dive calls for a second.

40:33We want to make sure that we're bringing you the right value, the right sessions, content. We love presenting this stuff to you guys. I I get a tremendous amount of joy like doing the sessions, prepping for the sessions. Then maybe it's a little different story.

40:50So what I wanted to ask is, are y'all getting value out of these calls with the topics we're covering? What topics aren't we covering that you want to hear about?

40:59And I also want to say another thing we're going to be doing here is we're going to be zooming out a little bit, okay? So historically, our KSS calls or deep dives.

41:09They have talked about workday specific tools and technology, right? But the developer work is changing. The world is changing, and with it. So is the workday development patterns, right?

41:20And something I hadn't thought about until Avina was talking about our new GitHub repository.

41:26A lot of people in the workday ecosystem don't know anything about version control. They don't know how to use Git. They might not know how to actually submit a contribution to our new GitHub, and that's a problem.

41:37So in 2 weeks we are going to talk version control. That is going to be the topic. It's not going to be embedded in in the context of workday. We're just going to talk about what is Git? Why is it important? How does it work? How do you use it? And we're going to give you the basics right?

41:53You can get pretty deep there.

41:56High level, but it's still gonna be a deep dive. So I think there's gonna be value for you. If…

42:03These are the kind of topics you want to hear about. Let us know right? The feedback is important. We're going to listen to it. I'm going to shake those calls based on what you tell me. Okay?

42:13So that's it.

42:15That's my pitch.

42:17You're getting a lot of love so far. We'll throw the link to the last call, which is on YouTube. Thank you, AP, or you could search on YouTube. It better show up. If it doesn't, let me know, because we will SEO optimize.

42:33Yeah, we're

42:34not gonna… we're not gonna boil the ocean. Yeah. Totally.

42:37All right, cool. Welcome. And welcome back. Hi, Ria. All right. Well, let's go into more of

42:43the upcoming events. So last month we only had one upcoming meetup coming up. Now we have three. So we have in Denver on August 27th.

42:53We have Atlanta on September 9th, and Indianapolis on November 4th. So you can go ahead, I'll share the link right now on finding your local meetup, and you can sign up today, so please, please come by. These are such cool events. I have never had someone say, I regret going to a meetup, so don't start now.

43:11Right? All right. putting the link in right now. And the

43:15Denver one is featuring the one and only Brandon Vegas.

43:19Yes, and the Atlanta one is going to be hosted by advisors. It's his team in Indianapolis is with Jasper Rosinski and Aram from Kanos. Yeah. So some cool stuff.

43:30We were just talking last night about me making a little drive over to Seattle. We may be hosting a Seattle meetup. Hell yeah!

43:37I've come out for that. Let's do it. Oh, man, so good. And

43:42of course we'll see you not in Boulder, unfortunately, next month, Tuesday, September 8th. We're always here. Second Tuesday of every month by A. Pacific time.

43:52And for the community updates, go ahead. We have our Youtube, of course, the Workday Developers playlist. If you haven't checked it out already, it has a lot of goodness related to how you can build and all the latest updates. We put this call there, too, so make sure to check it out.

44:08All

44:09right. And yes, it's a real screenshot from my real feed. It's okay. It made me smile. All right. And then, of course, if you

44:17haven't already, get social with us, join the workday developers page on Linkedin. That's where we give you all the latest updates.

44:25Uh, even if we're not, you know, we can't always meet up. So, this is the best place to get all these updates, and uh, yeah, go ahead and follow the page if you haven't already. And with that, I will throw it back to you, Nick, for

44:36Q&A. Yeah, we covered a lot of big stuff today. We've still got our amazing product managers on the line. We gave you about 3 really exciting things, so I'll leave the call open for a few minutes. Any questions folks want to talk about?

44:51Does anyone want to hear Tony time jingle again? I

44:55was gonna say that.

44:56We do need that on this slide.

45:00to make you a jingle out of that. Yeah, you should.

45:04Yes, that's my fourth prop.

45:11Alright. Alright, well, you know where to find us. You can find us on the forum, find us on Linkedin, throw something at Chris, whatever works. Folks, it's been an honor. Thank you for bearing with us as we are hiking, and then…

45:24presenting and live, but I think it was really, really fun. A huge thank you to our guest presenters for being on the call. Much appreci, as the cool kids say in SoCal, and we will catch you next month, bright and early, September 8th, 2026. See ya!