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Best Cloud, DevOps & reliability Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 56 Cloud, DevOps & reliability talks from a 85-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401), Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017, and Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018. The broader topic archive has 522 labeled comments across 2010–2026, but this list only includes videos classified as talks. Each row shows its recorded recommendation count and a reason based on its tags and HN history. Use the recent-video archive to browse every format by latest HN mention instead.

  1. 1
    AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2019–2025.

    12 recommenders
  2. 2
    Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017

    8 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    8 recommenders
  3. 3
    Containers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    6 recommenders
  4. 4
    Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2018–2025.

    6 recommenders
  5. 5
    Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Python, Ruby & scripting languages; the recorded mentions span 2024–2025.

    6 recommenders
  6. 6
    AWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James Hamilton

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2016–2023.

    5 recommenders
  7. 7
    How We've Scaled Dropbox

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2014–2023.

    5 recommenders
  8. 8
    Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2017–2021.

    4 recommenders
  9. 9
    Bryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features compute

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2014–2026.

    4 recommenders
  10. 10
    ElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel Azuma

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    4 recommenders
  11. 11
    Dtrace Review

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2013–2026.

    4 recommenders
  12. 12
    Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2020–2024.

    4 recommenders
  13. 13
    "Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2017–2024.

    4 recommenders
  14. 14
    Cgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2017–2023.

    4 recommenders
  15. 15
    Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Computer architecture & CPUs; the recorded mentions span 2020–2025.

    3 recommenders
  16. 16
    Golang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratch

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2016–2019.

    3 recommenders
  17. 17
    Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2013–2021.

    3 recommenders
  18. 18
    AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Networking & internet infrastructure; the recorded mentions span 2017–2020.

    3 recommenders
  19. 19
    Run containers on bare metal already!

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2015–2025.

    3 recommenders
  20. 20
    High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2017–2020.

    3 recommenders
  21. 21
    Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Networking & internet infrastructure; the recorded mentions span 2020–2025.

    3 recommenders
  22. 22
    dotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.gov

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2014–2015.

    3 recommenders
  23. 23
    Kubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & Demo

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Cloud, DevOps & reliability; the recorded mentions span 2017–2022.

    2 recommenders
  24. 24
    Rick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD users

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2015–2019.

    2 recommenders
  25. 25
    illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2014–2019.

    2 recommenders