PickVidsBest Networking & internet infrastructure Videos
The 78 Networking & internet infrastructure videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 34 intermediate, 26 for a general viewer, and 15 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 NANOG, Tom Scott, LastWeekTonight.
Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS
Troy Hunt argues that even static, non-secret websites need HTTPS, demonstrating attacks such as injected content and China's Great Cannon.
BBS The.Documentary Part 4 - Fidonet
Part 4 of the BBS: The Documentary series, covering FidoNet, the amateur network that linked dial-up bulletin board systems together to relay messages and files worldwide.
Tutorial: New and Updated - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Optical Networking
A two-hour NANOG tutorial by Richard Steenbergen aimed at network engineers, covering optical networking technologies.
DEBUNKING STARLINK
A 43-minute skeptical critique arguing that Starlink fails to live up to its promises, covering satellite lifespan, costs, bandwidth and viability.
FreeBSD optimizations used by Netflix serving at 800Gb/s - Drew Gallatin - EuroBSDcon 2022
Netflix engineer Drew Gallatin's EuroBSDcon 2022 talk quantifies the older FreeBSD optimizations that let Netflix serve web traffic at 800Gb/s, including TSO, LRO, VM page cache zones, asynchronous sendfile and unmapped mbufs.
Cory Benfield - Building Protocol Libraries The Right Way - PyCon 2016
Cory Benfield's PyCon 2016 talk on building protocol libraries that can be reused widely, using the Python Hyper HTTP project as the example.
IPFS Alpha Demo
Juan Benet gives an overview and demo of the go-ipfs alpha.
Net Neutrality II: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's Last Week Tonight segment on net neutrality, explaining the stakes of the FCC's push to roll back the rules and urging viewers to file comments.
SpaceX Seattle 2015
Full recording of Elon Musk's January 2015 presentation and Q&A at the SpaceX Seattle office announcement.
The benefits of deploying IPv6 only
A NANOG 64 panel with speakers from Comcast, APNIC, T-Mobile and Facebook on deploying IPv6-only networks, including performance data showing IPv6 outperforming NAT-ed IPv4.
All you need to know to understand 5G
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains how 5G works and examines the health concerns around millimeter wave radiation.
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.
DEFCON 19: Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation (w speaker)
Artem Dinaburg's DEF CON 19 talk on bit-squatting, where flipped bits in DRAM cause devices to contact domains that differ by one bit from legitimate ones.
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.
#112 LoRa / LoRaWAN De-Mystified / Tutorial
Andreas Spiess explains the basic principles of LoRa and LoRaWAN, their pros and cons, link budget and bandwidth.
Implementing (part of) a BitTorrent client in Rust
Jon Gjengset's roughly four-hour live stream implementing part of a BitTorrent client in Rust, following CodeCrafters' test-guided challenge.
How does Starlink Satellite Internet Work?📡☄🖥
Branch Education explains how Starlink works, from the ground dish and satellites to phased-array beam steering and data routing.
Speedy Cutover Service, SXS switching cutover to ESS filmed live at Glendale CA central office, 1984
A 1984 AT&T film showing the live cutover of a Glendale, California central office from step-by-step switching to an electronic switching system.
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.
115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go by Dan Tentler
Dan Tentler shows a rapid-fire tour of insecure things found on the open internet using Shodan and his own scanning, from unprotected VNC endpoints to industrial controls.
AT&T Archives: The Step-By-Step Switch
A 1951 Bell System training film showing how telephone calls are routed through a step-by-step (Strowger) switching office.
Tobias Engel: SS7: Locate. Track. Manipulate.
Tobias Engel's 31C3 talk shows how weaknesses in the SS7 telephone signaling network let companies and attackers locate, track and manipulate phones from anywhere in the world, with precision down to about 50 meters.
Speakeasy JS - Redbean: Actually Portable Executable Web Server (Justine Tunney)
Justine Tunney presents Redbean, a web server distributed as a single actually portable executable that runs on multiple operating systems.
Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - Chris Paget - Part.mov
Chris Paget's DEF CON 18 talk on practical cellphone spying, showing how GSM traffic can be intercepted with a fake base station.