PickVidsBest Databases & storage Videos
The 72 Databases & storage videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 39 intermediate, 9 for a general viewer, and 19 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 Strange Loop Conference, GOTO Conferences, Amazon Web Services.
A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick
Marshall Kirk McKusick gives a talk at EuroBSDCon tracing filesystem and storage development from 1979 to today, using the BSD Fast Filesystem as the focus.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)
An AWS re:Invent 2019 session for advanced DynamoDB users on design patterns used by large customers, including Amazon retail.
Lucas Cavalcanti & Edward Wible - Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic
A Clojure/conj 2014 talk by Lucas Cavalcanti and Edward Wible on four uses of Datomic.
Event Sourcing • Greg Young • GOTO 2014
Greg Young, who coined CQRS, gives an in-depth GOTO 2014 talk on what event sourcing is, when it is valuable and when it is not, along with its trade-offs and common misconceptions.
Thesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views
Jon Gjengset's 2020 PhD dissertation presentation at MIT on partial state in dataflow-based materialized views, the idea behind the Noria database.
Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"
A four-minute Velocity 2011 talk in which Artur Bergman, then at Wikia, argues bluntly and with profanity that SSDs should replace spinning disks in servers.
Greg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Greg Young, who coined CQRS, looks back on a decade of domain-driven design, CQRS and event sourcing at DDD Europe 2016.
The past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Martin Kleppmann's Local-First Conf talk reviewing where the local-first idea came from, where it stands five years after the essay, and what the community should work toward.
Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp
Ahmon Dancy of Franz Inc explains low-level programming in Common Lisp, including off-heap data structures used in AllegroGraph to manage memory outside the garbage collector.
The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2017
Martin Fowler's GOTO Chicago 2017 talk on the different things people mean by event-driven architecture.
SQLite: Protégé of PostgreSQL
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H3: Tiling the Earth with Hexagons
Uber Engineering's Joseph Gilley explains why Uber uses hexagons for geospatial indexing and introduces H3, its open source hierarchical grid system.
NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet
A Google Tech Talk by Raymond Blum on how Google backs up massive amounts of data such as Gmail and Picasa.
All of our data is GONE!
Linus Tech Tips documents a major RAID failure on its Whonnock server and the attempt to recover the lost data with a data recovery firm.
An Introduction to SQLite
A 2006 Google TechTalk in which SQLite's author Richard Hipp introduces the embeddable, zero-configuration C database library.
Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems.
Martin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)
Martin Kleppmann's Kafka Summit 2018 keynote asks whether Kafka can be considered a database.
Scaling ZFS for NVMe - Allan Jude - EuroBSDcon 2022
Allan Jude of Klara presents work on making ZFS scale on fast NVMe storage, covering fixes to the TaskQueue interface and removal of bottlenecks.
AWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
AWS's short promo for Snowmobile, a 45-foot shipping container pulled by a semi truck that moves up to 100PB of data to AWS.
OpenZFS Office Hours with Matt Ahrens
An OpenZFS office hours session with ZFS co-creator Matt Ahrens answering questions on topics such as hole birth time, send/receive buffers, device removal, block pointer rewrite and performance with many snapshots.
Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet
Kent Overstreet's Linux Foundation talk about writing a filesystem in Rust.
JVMLS 2015 - Compilers are Databases
Martin Odersky's JVM Language Summit 2015 talk argues that compilers can be thought of as databases.
Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale
A satirical animated dialogue in which a naive developer insists MongoDB is web scale while a database expert mocks him.
Oracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database: Larry Ellison
Fox Business interview in which Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison claims Oracle will beat Amazon at cloud databases.