Temporal Explained • Idempotence

In this episode, Principal Curriculum Developer Tom Wheeler interviews Principal Engineer Dominik Tornow about the concept of idempotency in Temporal Workflows.
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[@Temporalio]

Please see Side Effects, Front and Center by Pat Helland to dive deeper into the concept of idempotence: queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3099561

[@RobertLugg]

This was a brilliant way to present! It of course sounded rehearsed but that's fine. I'm also happy to see two smart people as part of your team.

[@bhargavkrishnayb]

For a second, i though Dominik's avatar was generated by Dalle-2

[@AmoghTalpallikar]

I've watched the whole video and I still have my doubts.

[@ShaheenGhiassy]

Same 😂

[@rolandhochmuth1951]

Thanks for the great overview, clear explanations and reference.

[@KaranNanda-qb2xp]

What if I have an activity which sends out http requests and I want to log the result of those to a DB? I don’t want to wait for failure/eventual success before logging it rather I want to log after every message returns. Could you advise what would be best here please? 😊
Many thanks

[@barsvelioglu2276]

Perfect presentation

[@miguelperezpal]

really good explanation!

[@1986chrisx]

Very well presented, you guys rock!

[@Temporalio]

Thanks so much!! !

[@canho605]

great tips

[@shanashinigami]

That was really helpful thank you! I would've loved more details on idempotent keys, but I'll go read up on it :)
Is there a series on topics and best practices in designing temporal workflows like this video?

[@Temporalio]

We don't have much best practices material yet. Some is on our blog, including more info on Idempotency: temporal.io/blog/idempotency-and-durable-execution

[@mathewmcfool]

I thought he was a VisionPro persona at first