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.
Tesla Virtual Power Plant
A QCon London 2020 talk by Tesla engineers on the architecture of Tesla's Virtual Power Plant.
Lamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"
A short clip from an ACM and Computer History Museum interview in which Leslie Lamport discusses writing his paper on time, clocks and the ordering of events.
Jeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGI
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Google's Jeff Dean and Noam Shazeer about 25 years at the company, from PageRank and MapReduce to the Transformer, mixture of experts and Gemini.
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.
Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices
A QCon talk from Netflix on running a large microservices architecture and building resilience into it.
Ray Summit 2022 - Day 1 Keynote - Fireside Chat
A Ray Summit 2022 keynote fireside chat between OpenAI's Greg Brockman and Anyscale's Robert Nishihara.
NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD
Scott Long of Netflix presents the architecture of the OpenConnect content delivery network at NYCBSDCon 2014.
Inside a Google data center
Joe Kava, VP of Google's Data Center Operations, gives a short tour of a Google data center.
How Netflix Uses Java - 2025 Edition
A Netflix engineer describes how Netflix uses Java in 2025, including Spring Boot, DGS/GraphQL, gRPC and keeping over 3000 services on the latest JDK.