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It would be nice to have a transcript. Video description: ----- When it comes to serverless applications one principle rules them all: idempotency. This abili

It would be nice to have a transcript. Video description: ----- When it comes to serverless applications one principle rules them all: idempotency. This ability to rerun a function, make a REST API call, or process a message any number of times and ensure the same result is extremely hard to do reliably. In this talk, I’d like to explain and explore the importance of idempotency and discuss how we can implement it in our own systems, including: 1. Idempotency’s relationship with good serverless architecture. 2. How safe retries are impossible without idempotency. 3. Examples of serverless frameworks and tools that help/encourage idempotency. You’ll leave this talk with a deeper understanding and appreciation for this tongue-twisting principle and start combing through your code with an idempotent eye.

barbazoo 4y ago
> It would be nice to have a transcript. I find text so much more accessible than video. Rarely have I seen a video that couldn't have been a bunch of slides or a blog post. Unrelated to this video here, I started to wonder if that's why a lot of the content that tends to be associated with conspiracy theories or regarded disinformation is in the form of video and not text. Video is just so much harder to scrutinize and reason about because it's so difficult to reference specific arguments when they're talked about and not written down.
- remotesynth 4y ago
modeless 4y ago
YouTube has transcripts now. On desktop, in the ellipsis menu under the video title on the right. On mobile, a "show transcript" button after expanding the video description. They're not exactly formatted for nice reading, but on desktop it's possible to copy and paste the whole transcript wherever you like. I find the speech recognition astonishingly accurate. Of course you will still find mistakes, but overall it is almost always possible to get most of a video's content much faster just by reading the transcript.
- doliveira 4y ago
  Really? As a non-native speaker, for most videos for which I might have a need for subtitles they're perfectly useless.
  - judge2020 4y ago
    Yes, this is pretty much limited to English videos in my experience.
remotesynth 4y ago

barbazoo 4y ago

> It would be nice to have a transcript. I find text so much more accessible than video. Rarely have I seen a video that couldn't have been a bunch of slides or a blog post. Unrelated to this video here, I started to wonder if that's why a lot of the content that tends to be associated with conspiracy theories or regarded disinformation is in the form of video and not text. Video is just so much harder to scrutinize and reason about because it's so difficult to reference specific arguments when they're talked about and not written down.

remotesynth 4y ago

modeless 4y ago

YouTube has transcripts now. On desktop, in the ellipsis menu under the video title on the right. On mobile, a "show transcript" button after expanding the video description. They're not exactly formatted for nice reading, but on desktop it's possible to copy and paste the whole transcript wherever you like. I find the speech recognition astonishingly accurate. Of course you will still find mistakes, but overall it is almost always possible to get most of a video's content much faster just by reading the transcript.

doliveira 4y ago
Really? As a non-native speaker, for most videos for which I might have a need for subtitles they're perfectly useless.
- judge2020 4y ago
  Yes, this is pretty much limited to English videos in my experience.

remotesynth 4y ago