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.
Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!
Dave Plummer tours the IBM z16 mainframe from design through factory assembly, test lab, accelerators and water cooling.
Exposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business Insider
A Business Insider investigation into the US boom in AI data centers, mapping where they are, who owns them, and how much power and water they consume.
High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake
Kyle Drake of Neocities explains the bandwidth pricing pitfalls of the big cloud providers.
Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)
Jared Mauch tells how he got fed up with poor internet options in rural Michigan and built his own fiber network to his town.
Orbital Data Centers Yes or No
Eager Space examines the practicality of putting data centers in orbit, walking through three scenarios with cost calculations and the launch cost reductions that would be required.
A walk through of installing Synapse+Riot+Jitsi from scratch on Debian
A walkthrough of installing Synapse, Riot and Jitsi from scratch on Debian to run your own Matrix communication service.
Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."
Mikey Dickerson's keynote at Velocity NY 2014, one year after the healthcare.gov launch failure.
How Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV
Pixar staff tell the story of how Toy Story 2 was almost deleted from the studio's computers and was saved by a home computer backup.
GitHub Actions Feels Bad
A fasterthanlime video essay arguing that GitHub Actions is a poorly designed system, with a history of personal computing and CI, and a look at how it works behind the scenes.
Kubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo
Kelsey Hightower introduces Kubernetes to sysadmins at PuppetConf 2016, with a demo.
Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users
Rick Reed of WhatsApp speaks at MeetBSD about running a messaging service on FreeBSD and Erlang at huge scale.
illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel
Bryan Cantrill's illumos Day 2014 talk on running Linux containers on an illumos kernel via LX-branded zones.
Design Microservice Architectures the Right Way
Michael Bryzek of Flow gives a QCon London 2018 talk on key decisions for building maintainable microservices.
Why Everyone Is Talking About Data Centers In Space
Scott Manley examines why SpaceX, Google and others are looking at orbital data centers.
dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov
A dotScale 2014 talk by Robert Kennedy, a former healthcare.gov SRE who later worked at Google, about the engineering effort to rescue the troubled site.
AWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)
James Hamilton, AWS VP and distinguished engineer, gives an insider view of the innovations behind the AWS cloud at re:Invent 2014.
Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe
John Allspaw and Paul Hammond's Velocity 09 talk on how Flickr achieved ten or more deploys per day through close cooperation between development and operations.
ChatOps at GitHub - Jesse Newland
Jesse Newland describes how GitHub uses Hubot, its chat bot, to run operations such as deployment, monitoring, graphing and provisioning from chat rooms.
AWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 session in which Holly Mesrobian and Marc Brooker explain how AWS Lambda is built, including its sandboxing, isolation and scaling architecture.
Hetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socket
Der8auer tours Hetzner's test lab and shows a custom AM5 server motherboard with the CPU socket rotated 90 degrees, built for rack airflow in their AX52 servers.
Container Hacks and Fun Images
Jessie Frazelle's DockerCon SF 2015 talk on running Docker containers for desktop applications, with fun container hacks and images.
Does It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?
Scott Manley analyzes the idea of putting data centers in orbit, prompted by Lumen Orbit's funding.
Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
A KRAZAM comedy sketch in which a character recites reassuring affirmations to site reliability engineers, satirizing on-call and outage culture.
CppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”
Matt Godbolt tells the story of Compiler Explorer, from a hacky basement server to a cloud-scaled service handling tens of thousands of daily requests.