PickVidsBest Software architecture & design Videos
The 177 Software architecture & design videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 8 introductory, 132 intermediate, 20 for a general viewer, and 17 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 ClojureTV, Confreaks, Strange Loop Conference.
TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef
Joran Dirk Greef's Systems Distributed '23 talk on TigerStyle, the engineering methodology behind TigerBeetle.
Pete Hunt: React - Rethinking Best Practices (updated) - JSConf.Asia 2013
Pete Hunt of Facebook and Instagram presents React at JSConf.Asia 2013, explaining its design principles and why they seemed shocking at first.
Interactive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020
Fons van der Plas introduces Pluto.jl, a reactive notebook for Julia that tracks references between cells and re-runs affected cells when code changes.
Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples
Brian Will follows up his earlier anti-OOP video by walking through four short code examples, including Java code in the style of Uncle Bob, to show how object-oriented design complicates simple programs.
Simplicity Ain't Easy - Stuart Halloway
Stuart Halloway argues that simplicity is objective, with a definition and etymology useful to programmers, rather than a subjective buzzword.
Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey's long presentation on Clojure and concurrency covers locking and immutability, then goes in depth on refs, transactions and agents.
Founder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
Alan Kay speaks at the DEMO Founder School session on why real progress takes invention rather than incremental innovation.
Alan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet
Alan Kay's 1997 OOPSLA keynote, preserved on YouTube after being lost from Google Video.
Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code
Leslie Lamport argues that programmers, like architects, should write rigorous specifications before coding, especially for concurrent and distributed systems.
Christopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
Christopher Alexander's keynote at OOPSLA 1996 on patterns in architecture, addressed to the software community.
Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason
Runar Bjarnason's Scala World talk argues that restraint and precision in components beat power and flexibility.
Are We There Yet - Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey's talk on time, state, identity and values, arguing that mutable object-oriented modeling fits the world poorly.
Rails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz
Sandi Metz's RailsConf 2013 talk offers practical guidelines for deciding what to test and how, so tests stay cheap and stable.
Alan Kay - Programming and Scaling
An Alan Kay talk on programming and scaling, covering theoretical limits of code size, engineering versus tinkering, and biological cells as inspiration for object-oriented design.
Cheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016
Cheng Lou's react-europe 2016 talk lays out a mental framework for thinking about abstraction levels in JavaScript tooling, from Angular and Grunt to Webpack and React.
Hacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook
Facebook engineers explain why they abandoned the traditional MVC paradigm for a more functional architecture, introducing Flux and React.
Building a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015
James Mickens's 2015 Harvard colloquium argues that browsers are bloated and insecure because feature races trump clean interface design.
Raymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017
Raymond Hettinger's PyBay 2017 keynote on concurrency in Python.
"Finding bugs without running or even looking at code" by Jay Parlar
Jay Parlar's Strange Loop talk shows how model checkers such as Alloy can find complex bugs in a system's design without running or reading any code.
Andrew Kelley: A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD)
Andrew Kelley, creator of Zig, presents practical data-oriented design techniques for shrinking memory footprint and making programs cache friendly.
Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014
Greg Young's Code on the Beach 2014 talk on CQRS and event sourcing.
Stuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design
Stuart Halloway's satirical talk describes how to protect yourself from industry change by spreading complexity through systems while following idiomatic practice.
Elm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file
Elm creator Evan Czaplicki's talk on how a file grows and when to split code up.
Immediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
Casey Muratori's 2005 video introducing immediate-mode GUIs as an alternative to retained widget toolkits.