talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi Howard
Reactive Summit · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2019–2020).
SignalTube analysis
Among 65 other talk videos tagged Distributed systems, the mean is 3.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.2× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 3.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 34 minutes 52 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2018-12-08.
- Channel / speaker
- Reactive Summit
- Verified runtime
- 34m 52s
- YouTube upload date
- 2018-12-08
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Distributed systems. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liberating Distributed Consensus - Heidi HowardCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 100% | — | 34m 52s | 2018-12-08 |
| The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019talk · GOTO Conferences | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 42m 3s | 2019-05-22 |
| "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilsontalk · Strange Loop Conference | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 40m 20s | 2014-09-20 |
| The Language of the System - Rich Hickeytalk · ClojureTV | 10 | 9 | 67% | No recorded overlap | 62m 50s | 2013-02-28 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “A Review of Consensus Protocols”. Its short rationale: Helpful talk on Heidi Howard's consensus work.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Keeping CALM: When Distributed Consistency Is Easy”. Its short rationale: Talk connecting CALM, monotonicity and consensus algorithms.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached consensus on distributed consensus?”. Its short rationale: Makes distributed consensus easy to understand.