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Update readme #861

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What changed?
Revamped readme for clarity.

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Help people understand what Temporal is and how to start with it.

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# Temporal

Temporal is a microservice orchestration platform which enables developers to build scalable applications without sacrificing productivity or reliability.
Temporal server executes units of application logic, Workflows, in a resilient manner that automatically handles intermittent failures, and retries failed operations.
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Workflows -> workflows

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No, we decided to cap all our important entities. Workflow, Activity, what else?

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I was told we need to capitalize in our docs core concepts like Workflows and Activities.

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not sure whether *Workflows* is better?

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Try out the sample recipes for [Go](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-go) or [Java](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-java) to get started.
Clone or download samples for [Go](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-go) or [Java](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-java) and try to run them against the local Temporal server.
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i guess the previous version looks better?

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There is no "recipes" any more. I like new version. Just would remove word "try" and rephrase a little.

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I rephrased a bit.

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### Run the Samples

Try out the sample recipes for [Go](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-go) or [Java](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-java) to get started.
Clone or download samples for [Go](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-go) or [Java](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-java) and try to run them against the local Temporal server.
We have a number of [HelloWorld type scenarios](https://github.com/temporalio/samples-java#helloworld) available.
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There is "hello world" in go too.

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But only one. Is it worth linking to it from here?

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I rephrased a bit.

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Not perfect but a huge improvement

@rylandg rylandg merged commit 764b9e4 into temporalio:master Oct 15, 2020
@sergeybykov sergeybykov deleted the pr/readme branch October 18, 2020 23:54
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