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Best Distributed systems videos, as recommended on Hacker News

76 videos about distributed systems that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2008 and 2026. Mostly talk, lecture, demo. Channels that come up most: Strange Loop Conference, Amazon Web Services, GOTO Conferences, Google TechTalks. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019: It is HN's favorite pitch for Elixir and the BEAM, credited with convincing many people to adopt them.

• talkThe Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019GOTO Conferences · 16 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
• talk"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will WilsonStrange Loop Conference · 12 HN recommenders · 2014–2024
• talkErlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsAppErlang Solutions · 6 HN recommenders · 2014–2022
• talk"Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin KleppmannStrange Loop Conference · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• talkThe Language of the System - Rich HickeyClojureTV · 10 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• talkGoogle I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency PatternsGoogle for Developers · 9 HN recommenders · 2012–2025
• talkConflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2016GOTO Conferences · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• talk"Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul ChiusanoStrange Loop Conference · 7 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• lecturePaxos lecture (Raft user study)Diego Ongaro · 6 HN recommenders · 2013–2024
• interviewHewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...)jasonofthel33t · 5 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• talkAdvanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash TableGoogleTalksArchive · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2024
• talk"I See What You Mean" by Peter AlvaroStrange Loop Conference · 6 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
• lectureDistributed Systems 1.1: IntroductionMartin Kleppmann · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• lectureLecture 1: IntroductionMIT 6.824: Distributed Systems · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• talkElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel AzumaElixirConf · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkGigCityElixir23 - Bryan HunterGroxio · 4 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• talkLeslie Lamport: Thinking Above the CodeMicrosoft Research · 5 HN recommenders · 2015–2026
• talkZach Tellman - Everything Will FlowClojureTV · 4 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
• talkAWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James HamiltonAmazon Web Services · 5 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• talkBreakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015Citus Data · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2020
• talkHow We've Scaled DropboxStanford · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2023
• talkI Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: ReachGDC Festival of Gaming · 4 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• talkClassic Game Postmortem: Ultima OnlineGDC Festival of Gaming · 5 HN recommenders · 2018–2024
• talkAutonomous Testing and the Future of Software Development - Will WilsonThe Linux Foundation · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2024
• talkVelocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"O'Reilly · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2021
• talkCRDTs and the Quest for Distributed ConsistencyInfoQ · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2020
• talkdotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortalsdotconferences · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkLiberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi HowardReactive Summit · 4 HN recommenders · 2019–2020
• lectureRaft lecture (Raft user study)Diego Ongaro · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• talkMINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating SystemFOSDEM · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2023
• lectureBuilding Software Systems At Google and Lessons LearnedStanford · 4 HN recommenders · 2012–2022
• demoErlang: The Movieuncertainyesterday · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026
• talk"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon MooreStrange Loop Conference · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• talkLet's #TalkConcurrency Panel Discussion with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl HewittErlang Solutions · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2026
• talkSolid Ground // Saša JurićEMPEX Conference · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• talkCRDTs: The Hard PartsMartin Kleppmann · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• talkPeter Rizun, Andrew Stone -- 1 GB Block Tests -- Scaling Bitcoin Stanford.OnChain Scaling · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
• demoErlang: The Movie (Fixed Audio)CH1LLW4VE · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
• talkDifferential SynchronizationGoogle TechTalks · 3 HN recommenders · 2012–2020
• talkErlang Factory SF 2016 Keynote Phoenix and Elm – Making the Web FunctionalErlang Solutions · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
• talk"Tackling Concurrency Bugs with TLA+" by Hillel WayneStrange Loop Conference · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkWhat I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016GOTO Conferences · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• talkNetdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenternetdevconf · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• talkKubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & DemoPerforce Puppet · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
• talkRick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD usersiX · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019
• demoErlang: The Moviedawsdesign · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• talkKilim: Fast, lightweight, cheap message passing in Java.Google TechTalks · 2 HN recommenders · 2009–2012
• talk"Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin KleppmannStrange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• demoIPFS Alpha DemoJuan Benet · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2017
• talk36C3 - The ecosystem is movingmedia.ccc.de · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
• talkAWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2020
• explainerThe Lightning Network Explained (Litecoin/Bitcoin)Franklyn · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2018
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2019
• talkThe Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018GOTO Conferences · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• talkScaling the Linear Sync EngineLinear · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2025
• talkReact Helsinki February 2020Fraktio · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkSeattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube ScalabilityGoogle TechTalks · 2 HN recommenders · 2008–2013
• talk"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)Strange Loop Conference · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2023
• talkMatrix 2.0 — How we're making Matrix go voom!Matrixdotorg · 2 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• talkAvoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy BogardNDC Conferences · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• talkThe Stellar Consensus Protocol | David Mazières | Talks at GoogleTalks at Google · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• talkONS 2015: Wednesday Keynote - Amin VahdatOpen Networking Summit · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2017
• talkScalability at YouTubeNext Day Video · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2024
• talkdotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't onedotconferences · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2018
• talkGreg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event SourcingDomain-Driven Design Europe · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2026
• talkThe past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)Local-First Conf · 1 HN recommender · 2025–2025
• talkAWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed SystemsAmazon Web Services · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2025
• talkThe Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2017GOTO Conferences · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2022
• talkOpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, GoogleOpen Networking Summit · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2015
• talkNYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the InternetGoogle TechTalks · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2021
• talkTesla Virtual Power PlantInfoQ · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2024
• interviewLamport on writing "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System"Turing Awardee Clips · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2024
• interviewJeff Dean & Noam Shazeer — 25 years at Google: from PageRank to AGIDwarkesh Patel · 1 HN recommender · 2025–2026
• talkMartin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)Confluent, an IBM Company · 1 HN recommender · 2018–2020