Video Description

Backend development often turns into chaos with separate tools for APIs, background jobs, and schedulers. In this video we explore Motia, a new framework that unifies everything into a single runtime powered by simple, composable Steps. We’ll build a demo project that pulls YouTube transcripts, generates tweets, and runs scheduled jobs - all with just four files. 🔗 Relevant Links Motia: https://www.motia.dev/ The YouTube Transcript Project: https://github.com/andrisgauracs/youtube-transcript-to-tweets ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 00:00 Why backends are so messy 00:25 Introducing Motia 00:56 What is a Step? 01:57 Built-in observability: logs, traces, state 02:31 Demo project overview 03:13 Inspecting Step files 04:00 Step 1: API to fetch YouTube transcript 04:15 Step 2: AI agent generates tweets 04:37 Test run 04:49 Step 3: Cron job that posts tweets to Bluesky 05:10 Step 4: Querying tweets from state 05:22 Wrapping up the system overview 05:42 Adding Better Stack for production observability 05:57 Final thoughts