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Best Databases & storage Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 52 Databases & storage talks from a 69-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson, AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401), and The Value of Values with Rich Hickey. The broader topic archive has 446 labeled comments across 2008–2026, 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
    "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson

    12 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2014–2024.

    12 recommenders
  2. 2
    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
  3. 3
    The Value of Values with Rich Hickey

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2014–2023.

    10 recommenders
  4. 4
    "Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza" by Martin Kleppmann

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2015–2025.

    9 recommenders
  5. 5
    Introduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2015–2021.

    6 recommenders
  6. 6
    "I See What You Mean" by Peter Alvaro

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2016–2019.

    6 recommenders
  7. 7
    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
  8. 8
    Rich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2020–2026.

    5 recommenders
  9. 9
    How We've Scaled Dropbox

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

    5 recommenders
  10. 10
    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
  11. 11
    ZFS: The Last Word in File Systems Part 1

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2016–2026.

    4 recommenders
  12. 12
    Breakout Session Presented by Dan Robinson of Heap at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2016–2020.

    4 recommenders
  13. 13
    Greg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2016–2022.

    4 recommenders
  14. 14
    Rich Hickey: Deconstructing the Database

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2012–2020.

    4 recommenders
  15. 15
    Conflict Resolution for Eventual Consistency • Martin Kleppmann • GOTO 2016

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2017–2020.

    3 recommenders
  16. 16
    What is in a Lucene index? Adrien Grand, Software Engineer, Elasticsearch

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2019–2020.

    3 recommenders
  17. 17
    Bryan Cantrill on ARC: A Self-Tuning, Low Overhead Replacement Cache [PWL SF] 10/2017

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    3 recommenders
  18. 18
    "Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB" by Konrad Malawski (Strange Loop 2023)

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2023–2025.

    3 recommenders
  19. 19
    Richard Hipp - Git: Just Say No

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Testing, debugging & developer tools; the recorded mentions span 2020–2021.

    3 recommenders
  20. 20
    How Modern SQL Databases Come up with Algorithms that You Would Have Never Dreamed Of by Lukas Eder

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2019–2023.

    3 recommenders
  21. 21
    TigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2023–2025.

    2 recommenders
  22. 22
    DuckDB – The SQLite for Analytics (Mark Raasveldt, CWI)

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2020–2026.

    2 recommenders
  23. 23
    Four Languages from Forty Years Ago - Scott Wlaschin

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Programming language design; the recorded mentions span 2019–2022.

    2 recommenders
  24. 24
    "Transactions: myths, surprises and opportunities" by Martin Kleppmann

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2018–2023.

    2 recommenders
  25. 25
    XFS: Recent and Future Adventures in Filesystem Scalability - Dave Chinner

    2 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Databases & storage; the recorded mentions span 2012–2023.

    2 recommenders