PickVidsBest Distributed systems Videos
The 81 Distributed systems videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 6 introductory, 52 intermediate, 2 for a general viewer, and 21 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, Amazon Web Services, GOTO Conferences.
IPFS Alpha Demo
Juan Benet gives an overview and demo of the go-ipfs alpha.
36C3 - The ecosystem is moving
Moxie Marlinspike's 36C3 talk examines why distributed and decentralized technology is hard to build into consumer products, from the perspective of developing Signal.
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.
The Lightning Network Explained (Litecoin/Bitcoin)
An 8-minute explainer on the Lightning Network and how it relates to Segwit, Bitcoin and Litecoin.
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.
The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018
Joe Armstrong, inventor of Erlang, gives a GOTO Chicago 2018 talk on building fault-tolerant systems.
Scaling the Linear Sync Engine
A Linear engineer talks about scaling the company's sync engine, which keeps client data local and synchronized.
React Helsinki February 2020
React Helsinki meetup recording featuring a talk on lessons with Apollo GraphQL and Linear co-founder Tuomas Artman on real-time sync for web apps.
Seattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability
Cuong Do of YouTube describes how a handful of engineers scaled the site, covering hardware, software and database scalability challenges during its rapid growth.
"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)
Joe Armstrong's Strange Loop 2013 talk on building large scalable systems from small isolated parallel components.
Matrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!
A FOSDEM 2023 talk from the Matrix team on Matrix 2.0, covering sliding sync, the Element X client rewrite and next-generation calling.
Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy Bogard
Jimmy Bogard presents a post-mortem of a real microservices migration that turned into a slow distributed monolith.
AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 talk on how AWS limits the blast radius of failures.
The Stellar Consensus Protocol | David Mazières | Talks at Google
David Mazieres presents the Stellar Consensus Protocol at Google, introducing federated Byzantine agreement.
AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 session on how DynamoDB was built as a hyper-scale NoSQL database.
ONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin Vahdat
Google's Amin Vahdat gives the ONS 2015 keynote on Google's datacenter networking, including its custom hardware, software-defined networking and very high bisection bandwidth.
Scalability at YouTube
A PyCon 2012 talk by early YouTube engineer Mike Solomon on how YouTube scaled its architecture, which is mostly Python.
dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one
John Graham-Cumming of Cloudflare talks at dotScale 2015 about handling roughly 10 trillion log lines a month.
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.
AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
An AWS re:Invent 2014 talk on the core distributed systems primitives behind AWS and Amazon.com, such as consensus, key-value stores and transactional logging.
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.
OpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, Google
Urs Hoelzle, Google's SVP of infrastructure, gives the 2012 Open Networking Summit keynote on how Google adopted OpenFlow and software-defined networking in its own networks.
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.