Databases & Storage Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#57

"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson

Strange Loop Conference

“this is one of the most amazing talks on distributed systems”

12 HN recommenders · 2014–2024

talk#69

The Value of Values with Rich Hickey

InfoQ

“is what finally sold me on the benefits of pure functional programming and immutable data structures.”

10 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

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

talk#164

"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann

Strange Loop Conference

“This talk on Apache Samza completely changed how I think about caching and derived data in general”

9 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#302

Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2016

GOTO Conferences

“Rest of the talk is also highly recommended for anyone interested in an approachable primer on CRDTs.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020

lecture#372

01 - Course Introduction & Relational Model (CMU Databases Systems / Fall 2019)

CMU Database Group

“Highly recommended both for the depth and how Andy Pavlo presents the topic.”

6 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#504

Introduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012

GOTO Conferences

“one of the rare videos I've required students in my database classes to watch.”

6 HN recommenders · 2015–2021

talk#578

Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple

Fred Overflow

“A classic rant by Rich Hickey”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#610

TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef

TigerBeetle

“The TigerStyle video is well worth watching for anyone who wants to build defect-free software systems”

2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

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

lecture#639

Michael Stonebraker | Big Data is (at least) Four Different Problems

Michigan Engineering

“a rather interesting talk by a very thoughtful Turing award winning engineer named Michael Stonebraker”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2024

talk#647

"I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro

Strange Loop Conference

“I highly recommend watching Peter Alvaro’s Strangeloop talk about creating Dedalus”

6 HN recommenders · 2016–2019

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#759

ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1

Deirdré Straughan

“I would recommend anybody interested in filesystems to watch Jeff Bonwick (ZFS inventor) explain the design of ZFS”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2026

talk#760

Breakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015

Citus Data

“Dan from Heap Analytics has a great talk about how they use Postgres and Citus.”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2020

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#893

Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014

Code on the Beach

“forever changed how I think about modeling systems, preserving history”

4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#894

SQLite: The Database at the Edge of the Network with Dr. Richard Hipp

Method

“I highly recommend to watch it, if only to get a sense of the smart and funny energy that Dr Richard Hipp puts off!”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

demo#993

introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server

tripflag

“The launch video is well worth a quick watch”

7 HN recommenders · 2025–2026

talk#1030

Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

InfoQ

“Rich Hickey's talk on the design of Datomic is also something every programmer should see at least once”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

tutorial#1387

Christophe Pettus - PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People - PyCon 2016

PyCon 2016

“I found this to be great introductory that touches on all the major points to keep in mind with Postgres.”

3 HN recommenders · 2016

talk#1450

Lower Latency Graph Queries in Cypher with Redis GraphRoi Lipman, Redis LabsTim Davis, Texas A&M U

Redis

“I think you'll find this presentation on GraphBLAS positively mind-blowing”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

lecture#1565

Donald B. Gillies Lecture: Dr. Michael Stonebraker

Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

“There's a lot more, I highly recommend the talk!”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#1635

DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)

CMU Database Group

“one of the implementers giving a talk to CMU students about what DuckDB is, why they made it, and how it works”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#1658

What is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

LuceneSolrRevolution

“I can super highly recommend talks by Adrien Grand on Lucene and Elasticsearch.”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

talk#1988

Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017

PapersWeLove

“Bryan Cantrill does a pretty good survey of caching strategies in the intro”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

demo#2040

Avi Bryant demos Dabble db

Tavis Rudd

“The UI was very intuitive, and it did a better job with things like table relations than it's competitors.”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2023

talk#2143

"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)

Strange Loop Conference

“The fairly recent presentation about starting to move FoundationDB to Swift[0] was also very interesting.”

3 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#2196

Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No

southeastlinuxfest

“If the author of SQLite advances some arguments around the proper way of doing version management, I would advise to error on the side of caution and listen at least a second time.”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2021

talk#2317

How Modern SQL Databases Come up with Algorithms that You Would Have Never Dreamed Of by Lukas Eder

Devoxx

“I'd suggest watching this video to get a flavor of how much leverage using the database can give you”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

talk#2353

Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

NDC Conferences

“Check out this fantastic talk by Scott Wlaschin to get a sampling of truly different language paradigms”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

tutorial#2398

A Tour of Prolog

The Power of Prolog

“check out this video introduction by Markus Triska about what makes Prolog unique”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024

talk#2509

Bringing the Unix Philosophy to Big Data by Bryan Cantrill: FutureStack13

New Relic

“The Bryan Cantrill talk is definitely worth your time”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

talk#2793

"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann

Strange Loop Conference

“I recommend watching this talk from him to give a little glimpse of the book”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

demo#2818

Dabble DB demo

krueggen

“If you haven't heard of DabbleDB, this video is a good introduction”

2 HN recommenders · 2014–2018

talk#2930

XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner

Linux.conf.au 2012 -- Ballarat, Australia

“Please check this talk from Dave Chinner, where he explains how XFS was developed and ported to Linux”

2 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

talk#2969

The Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva

ClojureTV

“Just watch the last part of Wilker Silva's The Maximal Graph talk to see the potential”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

commentary#3162

The Worst Typo I Ever Made

Tom Scott

“Tom Scott has a great video on his "Oh Shoot" moment”

2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026

talk#3185

Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability

Google TechTalks

“Really good talk with lots of jewels.”

2 HN recommenders · 2008–2013

talk#3280

BetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System

Microsoft Research

“It's a great example of theoreticians and systems researchers working together.”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#3291

ZFS Native Encryption by Tom Caputi

OpenZFS

“check out this presentation on how encryption was bolted on ZFS”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#3294

"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael Arntzenius

Strange Loop Conference

“Also be sure to watch Datafun author Michael Arntzenius's Strangeloop talk.”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

lecture#3430

Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent database

Jon Gjengset

“gave a great talk about the system”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022

demo#3458

Foundry 2022 Operating System Demo

Palantir

“This Foundry demo impressed me at the time but its a bit dated now”

2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026

talk#3498

Modern SQL: A lot has changed since SQL-92 by Markus Winand

Devoxx

“the whole talk is good”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023

talk#3518

June 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion

FreeBSD

“For those that like videos more than text, there is a youtube video from last year [1] that explain the feature”

2 HN recommenders · 2021–2023

talk#3526

AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)

Amazon Web Services

“here's a talk you might find interesting from one of the folks who built and ran DDB for a long time”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022

talk#3697

Your web app but good: Aaron Boodman (Local-First Conf)

Local-First Conf

“wholeheartedly recommend this wonderful talk about the thoughts that led to this”

1 HN recommenders · 2024–2025