Cloud, DevOps & Reliability Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#76

Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"

O'Reilly

“One of the most important talks I've ever seen is Richard Cook's”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

talk#93

Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017

GOTO Conferences

“The best postmortem I've seen was actually a conference talk”

8 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#130

AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)

Amazon Web Services

“I highly recommend every engineer to watch it: it's a great overview of SQL vs NoSQL”

12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025

demo#253

Literate Devops with Emacs

Howard Abrams

“His video on literate programming for DevOps via Emacs' Org-mode was very impressive and inspiring to me. It's my favorite.”

8 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#537

Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

GOTO Conferences

“Probably one of the most enlightening presentations I've seen in recent years, full-stop.”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

documentary#618

Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)

der8auer EN

“There's a great YouTube tour of one of their data centres here”

6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#621

Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

AI Council

“I highly recommend any talk you can find of Bryan Cantrill. A wonderful mix of industry history and great delivery.”

4 HN recommenders · 2014–2026

talk#671

Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

Code & Supply

“As with all his talks, you can expect it to be quite entertaining as well as informative”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#690

ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma

ElixirConf

“I would recommend watching Dan Azuma's fantastic video (stick around for the live demo)”

4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#706

Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

Stanford Online

“The talk lays out a history of servers, describes the problems with the servers that you can buy from vendors today”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

talk#735

AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

Amazon Web Services

“The keynote by James Hamilton[1] is absolutely awesome.”

5 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#765

How We've Scaled Dropbox

Stanford

“I found the Dropbox lecture [1] at Stanford one of the most riveting things ever.”

5 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#774

Dtrace Review

GoogleTalksArchive

“I'm partial to Bryan Cantrill's Dtrace talk since it tackles a fundamental problem in software engineering and shows how to solve it using a new technology.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

talk#853

Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018

LeadDev

“There's an excellent talk from Nick Means (GitHub) called "Who Destroyed Three Mile Island?".”

4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#889

Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

GopherCon UK

“have given talks on how to make containers from scratch that are very illuminating”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

demo#993

introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

tripflag

“The launch video is well worth a quick watch”

7 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#998

Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"

O'Reilly

“I would watch this talk every couple of months to remind myself of the principles.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2021

talk#1396

"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore

Strange Loop Conference

“The basic premise is not do do req/s limiting but rather concurrency limiting which results in req/s limiting by itself.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

talk#1423

Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?

Docker

“I watched this talk couple of years ago that made docker/containers finally click for me.”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1461

Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

Ruby on Rails

“I highly recommend you watch the first half hour of DHH Rails World talk on Rails 8 even if you aren’t a Ruby dev”

6 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#1493

AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets

Amazon Web Services

“Here's the ever excellent Eric Brandwine explaining what AWS does at L3 wrt VPC”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

podcast#1704

Old Geeks Yell At Cloud (with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill)

Arrested DevOps

“the whole thing is worth watching”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1717

Run containers on bare metal already!

Bryan Cantrill

“he's an extremely engaging speaker, so not only are you likely to watch all of that 40 minute talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

explainer#1802

Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!

Dave's Garage

“This is an amazing 23-minute video by the Microsoft programmer who developed the Windows NT Task Manager, among other things.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024

documentary#1836

Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider

Business Insider

“Just watch that and not get hoppin' mad.”

2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#1884

High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake

PDX Node

“Check out this talk by Kyle Drake that goes more into the details of bandwidth costs”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

talk#1953

Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)

NLNOG

“At this year's (virtual) NLNOG there was presentation from a fellow who was fed up with slow Internet options in his rural Michigan county”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

explainer#2014

Orbital Data Centers Yes or No

Eager Space

“Goes into great detail with extensive calculations (for a YT video at least).”

3 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

tutorial#2179

A walk through of installing Synapse+Riot+Jitsi from scratch on Debian

Matrixdotorg

“I found this video to be super helpful”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#2391

Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."

O'Reilly

“I saw Mikey Dickerson give a great talk about his experience leading the completion of healthcare.gov”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

interview#2400

How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV

@HOLLYWOOD

“which I highly recommend if you are in storage, DevOps or SRE”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

commentary#2405

GitHub Actions Feels Bad

fasterthanlime

“This video really highlighted just how brittle the whole thing is even behind the scenes”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#2445

Kubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo

Perforce Puppet

“Kelsey Hightower comparing the kubernetes scheduler to Tetris was awesome for cementing a mental model.”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

talk#2520

Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users

iX

“Their technology stack (FreeBSD/Erlang) is pretty interesting, more info here: 2014 talks by Rick Reed”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019

talk#2521

illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

illumos

“I really enjoyed this talk[1] by Bryan Cantrill”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019

talk#2611

Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way

InfoQ

“There's a great talk that I highly recommend about some of the magic you can do”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#2943

dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

dotconferences

“A couple of my colleagues have given talks on healthcare.gov from the perspective of the engineers who worked around the clock to help get the site running again”

3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015

talk#2980

AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)

Amazon Web Services

“James Hamilton gives a good talk that goes over networking (and more).”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2020

talk#3011

Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe

O'Reilly

“It was really a pivotal talk in the early days of the DevOps movement”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

talk#3038

ChatOps at GitHub - Jesse Newland

Rubyfuza

“There's a pretty good talk on "chatops" by the guys at GitHub[0].”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2021

talk#3086

AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)

Amazon Web Services

“You can watch this talk to learn more”

2 HN recommenders · 2019

demo#3134

Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket

der8auer EN

“The second is especially interesting as it demonstrates Hetzner's unique semi-custom hardware.”

1 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#3242

Container Hacks and Fun Images

Jessie Frazelle

“If you prefer video format, Jessie also has a talk at DockerCon SF 2015”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

explainer#3246

Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?

Scott Manley

“The great Scott Manley did a video about that”

3 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

comedy#3323

Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers

KRAZAM

“this hit so close to home I didn't know whether to laugh or cry”

2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025

talk#3339

CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”

CppCon

“a cool feature he presented is the integrated LLVM Machine Code Analyser tool”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

talk#3441

AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)

Amazon Web Services

“This YouTube video[1] of a re:invent presentation does a great job of explaining it.”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

demo#3493

The future of Linux Containers

dotcloudtv

“Re-watch the first public demo”

2 HN recommenders · 2013–2025