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Best Distributed systems Talks Recommended on Hacker News

This ranked list contains 66 Distributed systems talks from a 80-video topic archive. Entries are ordered by distinct Hacker News recommenders, then by the catalog score; the leading titles include The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019, "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson, and The Language of the System - Rich Hickey. The broader topic archive has 528 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
    The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019

    16 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2019–2024.

    16 recommenders
  2. 2
    "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
  3. 3
    The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

    10 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Software architecture & design; the recorded mentions span 2013–2025.

    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
    Google I/O 2012 - Go Concurrency Patterns

    9 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages; the recorded mentions span 2012–2025.

    9 recommenders
  6. 6
    "Unison: a new distributed programming language" by Paul Chiusano

    7 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Functional programming; the recorded mentions span 2020–2023.

    7 recommenders
  7. 7
    Erlang Factory 2014 - That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp

    6 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2014–2022.

    6 recommenders
  8. 8
    "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
  9. 9
    Leslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Logic & formal methods; the recorded mentions span 2015–2026.

    5 recommenders
  10. 10
    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
  11. 11
    How We've Scaled Dropbox

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

    5 recommenders
  12. 12
    Classic Game Postmortem: Ultima Online

    5 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game history & retro gaming; the recorded mentions span 2018–2024.

    5 recommenders
  13. 13
    Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free Hash Table

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Algorithms & data structures; the recorded mentions span 2013–2024.

    4 recommenders
  14. 14
    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
  15. 15
    GigCityElixir23 - Bryan Hunter

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2023–2025.

    4 recommenders
  16. 16
    Zach Tellman - Everything Will Flow

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2015–2022.

    4 recommenders
  17. 17
    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
  18. 18
    I Shot You First: Networking the Gameplay of Halo: Reach

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Game programming & engines; the recorded mentions span 2022–2025.

    4 recommenders
  19. 19
    Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2019–2020.

    4 recommenders
  20. 20
    MINIX 3: a Modular, Self-Healing POSIX-compatible Operating System

    4 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Operating systems & kernels; the recorded mentions span 2013–2023.

    4 recommenders
  21. 21
    "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
  22. 22
    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
  23. 23
    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
  24. 24
    CRDTs and the Quest for Distributed Consistency

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Distributed systems; the recorded mentions span 2018–2020.

    3 recommenders
  25. 25
    dotJS 2019 - James Long - CRDTs for Mortals

    3 distinct Hacker News commenters recommended this talk about Web development; the recorded mentions span 2020–2023.

    3 recommenders