Distributed Systems Videos Hacker News Recommends

talk#15

The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

GOTO Conferences

“Watch this if you want to understand why so many people fall in love with it.”

16 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

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#140

Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

Erlang Solutions

“watch this talk and imagine trying to recreate that system with only a handful of server engineers”

6 HN recommenders · 2014–2022

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#218

The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV

“it has really changed the way I look at distributed persistent storage.”

10 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#227

Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns

Google for Developers

“Great talk by Rob Pike”

9 HN recommenders · 2012–2025

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

talk#325

"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano

Strange Loop Conference

“this talk might be a better introduction than just skimming at the landing page.”

7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

lecture#466

Paxos lecture (Raft user study)

Diego Ongaro

“The 2 videos do an excellent job of explaining both the Paxos and Raft algorithms and the key differences between them.”

6 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

interview#534

Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...)

jasonofthel33t

“It's truly a masterclass.”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

talk#633

Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table

GoogleTalksArchive

“I highly recommend this talk by Cliff Click about building highly scalable hash tables via Compare And Swap”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2024

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

lecture#651

Distributed Systems 1.1: Introduction

Martin Kleppmann

“the distributed system audio course on youtube is extremely accessible”

5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025

lecture#665

Lecture 1: Introduction

MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems

“Martin Kleppmann (author of DDIA)”

5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025

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#699

GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter

Groxio

“an excellent presentation of design/architecture of a Real-World fault-tolerant and distributed System in Erlang/Elixir”

4 HN recommenders · 2023–2025

talk#714

Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code

Microsoft Research

“He's just saying that you should think before you code and that most specifications should be just a few sentences stating what you intend to do.”

5 HN recommenders · 2015–2026

talk#718

Zach Tellman - Everything Will Flow

ClojureTV

“He talks about queues and how they break down under load.”

4 HN recommenders · 2015–2022

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#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#798

I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach

GDC Festival of Gaming

“This talk from the Halo: Reach team might be one of my favorite game networking talks I've ever seen”

4 HN recommenders · 2022–2025

talk#812

Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

GDC Festival of Gaming

“This is a much watch if MMOs fascinate you. They're very transparent. Absolutely great video.”

5 HN recommenders · 2018–2024

talk#945

Autonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will Wilson

The Linux Foundation

“I would encourage you to listen to Will Wilson’s excellent talk on the subject of Autonomous Testing”

1 HN recommenders · 2019–2024

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#1025

CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency

InfoQ

“I also highly recommend the talk”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020

talk#1031

dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals

dotconferences

“the same one who made a great talk on using CRDTs called CRDTs for Mortals”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023

talk#1058

Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard

Reactive Summit

“Heidi Howard is incredible and her work on distributed consensus is illuminating.”

4 HN recommenders · 2019–2020

lecture#1105

Raft lecture (Raft user study)

Diego Ongaro

“The 2 videos do an excellent job of explaining both the Paxos and Raft algorithms and the key differences between them.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2025

talk#1119

MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System

FOSDEM

“it's a very interesting but accessible talk for those interested in lower-level systems and fault-tolerant architectures.”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2023

lecture#1147

Building Software Systems At Google and Lessons Learned

Stanford

“It's from 2010, but the fundamentals probably haven't changed.”

4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022

demo#1176

Erlang: The Movie

uncertainyesterday

“the designers of Erlang demo some of the qualities of the Erlang system in a delightful way”

4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026

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#1486

Let's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt

Erlang Solutions

“It was interesting hearing them discuss their different thoughts and approaches”

3 HN recommenders · 2019–2026

talk#1806

Solid Ground // Saša Jurić

EMPEX Conference

“It perfectly articulates what sets Erlang/BEAM/Elixir apart from other runtimes/languages.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023

talk#1861

CRDTs: The Hard Parts

Martin Kleppmann

“I found this video from him to be an excellent first education on CRDTs”

3 HN recommenders · 2020–2024

talk#1921

Peter Rizun, Andrew Stone -- 1 GB Block Tests -- Scaling Bitcoin Stanford.

OnChain Scaling

“A good talk about really big blocks on bitcoin and what the ramifications are;”

2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022

demo#1967

Erlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)

CH1LLW4VE

“the most glorious 11 minutes of some programmers explaining how their creation works you will ever see”

2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021

talk#2087

Differential Synchronization

Google TechTalks

“The really nice bits, though, are that it is a simple algorithm”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2020

talk#2124

Erlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web Functional

Erlang Solutions

“My Erlang Factory keynote also goes into the design considerations and PubSub layer optimizations that sits underneath Phoenix.Presence”

2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022

talk#2149

"Tackling Concurrency Bugs with TLA+" by Hillel Wayne

Strange Loop Conference

“If you are new to TLA+ and just want to get the basic idea and use cases, I recommend the talk.”

3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

talk#2221

What I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016

GOTO Conferences

“I enjoyed that video”

3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023

talk#2248

Netdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter

netdevconf

“The Netdev talk I've linked below is really good”

2 HN recommenders · 2023

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#2761

Kilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.

Google TechTalks

“Kilim's author did a nice Google Talk”

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2012

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#2829

IPFS Alpha Demo

Juan Benet

“Watch a demo of this @ 7:00 in this video”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017