PickVidsBest Cloud, DevOps & reliability Videos
The 89 Cloud, DevOps & reliability videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 45 intermediate, 27 for a general viewer, and 16 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Amazon Web Services, O'Reilly, InfoQ.
Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"
Richard Cook's short Velocity 2013 talk on resilience in complex adaptive systems, arguing systems operate near the edge of failure and that the surprise is how rarely they fail.
Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017
Bryan Cantrill's GOTO Chicago 2017 talk on debugging production systems under pressure, centered on the incident where an operator's mistyped command rebooted an entire Joyent datacenter.
AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)
Rick Houlihan's AWS re:Invent 2018 deep dive on advanced DynamoDB design patterns.
Literate Devops with Emacs
Howard Abrams demonstrates, in an EmacsConf 2015 talk, how he uses org-mode's Babel and Tramp to configure and operate remote servers from a single document.
Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018
Liz Rice live-codes a minimal container runtime in a few lines of Go at GOTO Amsterdam 2018.
Over 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)
Overclocker der8auer tours Hetzner's Falkenstein data center in Germany, showing custom racks, own mainboards, passively cooled servers and ATX-style cases on shelves.
Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute
Bryan Cantrill of Joyent presents Manta, an internet-facing object store that lets you run compute directly on the data.
Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017
Bryan Cantrill's Uptime 2017 talk on the engineering challenges of the stateful data path, including storage, firmware and hardware bugs.
ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma
Daniel Azuma's ElixirConf 2018 talk on whether Docker and OTP conflict.
Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer
Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer Company gives a Stanford EE380 talk on rethinking the server.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton
James Hamilton's Tuesday Night Live keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016, touring AWS infrastructure at scale including networking, power and custom silicon.
How We've Scaled Dropbox
Dropbox engineer Kevin Modzelewski gives a Stanford colloquium on Dropbox's history and the technical problems it faced scaling, including detailed database schema decisions.
Dtrace Review
Bryan Cantrill's 2007 Google Tech Talk on DTrace, showing how dynamic tracing improves debugging of both development and live production systems.
Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018
Nickolas Means recounts the 1979 Three Mile Island accident minute by minute, from the control rod insertion to the operator's decision to switch off emergency cooling.
Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch
Liz Rice builds a container from scratch in about 100 lines of Go, showing that a container is not a lightweight VM but a set of Linux kernel features and flags.
introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server
The author of copyparty introduces the FOSS file server he has built over five years, demoing its features such as resumable uploads, WebDAV and deduplication.
Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"
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Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons
Benn Jordan investigates infrasound and low-frequency noise from data centers, including xAI's Colossus and a crypto mine, and reports his own experiments on the effects.
"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
Jon Moore's Strange Loop 2017 talk argues that rate limiting is the wrong tool for protecting services from noisy clients.
Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?
Jérôme Petazzoni explains how Linux containers are built from kernel features like cgroups, namespaces and SELinux.
Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson
DHH's opening keynote at Rails World 2024 in Toronto, where Rails 8 beta shipped.
AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Eric Brandwine's AWS re:Invent 2015 session on how Amazon VPC networking works.
Old Geeks Yell At Cloud (with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill)
A podcast episode of Arrested DevOps with Andrew Clay Shafer and Bryan Cantrill, featuring Cantrill's rant on integrity in companies and technology.
Run containers on bare metal already!
Bryan Cantrill's Velocity NYC 2015 talk argues for running containers directly on bare metal rather than layering them on virtual machines.