Distributed Systems Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2
Distributed systems videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering consensus, Paxos, Raft, replication, CAP theorem, Kafka, event logs, Erlang/OTP, scaling services across machines, fault tolerance, large-scale architectures at Google, Netflix, Facebook.
75 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 49–75
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talk#290536C3 - The ecosystem is moving
media.ccc.de
“A talk by Moxie at CCC deals with this exact question.”
2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
talk#2980AWS 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
explainer#3029The Lightning Network Explained (Litecoin/Bitcoin)
Franklyn
“This video gives a high-level overview”
2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
talk#3086AWS 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
talk#3118The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018
GOTO Conferences
“it's well worth listening to this talk, which is conceptual and not code-centric”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
talk#3155Scaling the Linear Sync Engine
Linear
“This talk by Karri about Linear's "sync engine" is also a good watch”
2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
talk#3160React Helsinki February 2020
Fraktio
“I remember watching an early video of their founder explaining the architecture in more detail”
2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
talk#3185Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability
Google TechTalks
“Really good talk with lots of jewels.”
2 HN recommenders · 2008–2013
talk#3239"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
Strange Loop Conference
“is a great talk too.”
2 HN recommenders · 2023
talk#3265Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!
Matrixdotorg
“we revealed the end result at FOSDEM a few weeks ago, and it literally improves performance to be better than Telegram/Discord/Slack”
2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
talk#3297Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard
NDC Conferences
“Inverse Conway Maneuver: Design the organization you want, the architecture will follow, kicking and screaming.”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
talk#3441AWS 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
talk#3485The Stellar Consensus Protocol | David Mazières | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
“This is a great video explaining SCP in detail”
2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
talk#3526AWS 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#3583ONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin Vahdat
Open Networking Summit
“If you're interested in datacenter networking, can't miss ONS.”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
talk#4009Scalability at YouTube
Next Day Video
“YouTube (owned by Google) is mainly Python.”
1 HN recommenders · 2012–2024
talk#4088dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one
dotconferences
“I discovered a moderately old video from CloudFlare hiding in there, and had a rather big TIL moment.”
1 HN recommenders · 2015–2018
talk#4091Greg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Domain-Driven Design Europe
“Greg Young reduces the "framework" to a function, a pattern match & a left fold.”
1 HN recommenders · 2016–2026
talk#4122The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
“Martin Kleppmann in his talk last year spoke [1] the need for a generic sync protocol, which was very interesting.”
1 HN recommenders · 2025
talk#4170AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
Amazon Web Services
“That presentation is full of great insight into how AWS thinks about distributed systems.”
1 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
talk#4203The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2017
GOTO Conferences
“This was interesting as far as I remember but not what I was looking for”
1 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
talk#4251OpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, Google
Open Networking Summit
“Google has been using OpenFlow for some time now.”
1 HN recommenders · 2013–2015
talk#4422NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet
Google TechTalks
“Backups are a tax you pay for the luxury of restore”
1 HN recommenders · 2014–2021
talk#4469Tesla Virtual Power Plant
InfoQ
“was an informative watch that covers the power problem space and their distributed software solution”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
interview#4593Lamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
Turing Awardee Clips
“This short clip [0] from that interview is worth a watch.”
1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
interview#4716Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Dwarkesh Patel
“Recommend if you want a taste of what’s Google’s folks take on things.”
1 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
talk#4718Martin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)
Confluent, an IBM Company
“If you are interested, check this guy;”
1 HN recommenders · 2018–2020
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