Systems and databases

Stanford · 372K views · 14 years ago

A good way in: a Dropbox engineer frankly walks through growing the service from nothing to millions of users, schema decisions included, and one commenter found it one of the most riveting things ever.

Method · 82K views · 11 years ago

The creator of the world's most widely used database explains where SQLite fits, how it is tested and why it gets long-term support, with an energy commenters enjoy as much as the content.

Amazon Web Services · 468K views · 7 years ago

Rick Houlihan's dense session is HN's go-to for learning to design data around access patterns, and a clear overview of how NoSQL thinking differs from SQL.

Strange Loop Conference · 206K views · 12 years ago

Kleppmann reframes a database as a log of immutable facts with caches and indexes derived from it, the talk commenters say changed how they think about derived data.

Diego Ongaro · 114K views · 13 years ago

On to consensus: John Ousterhout's clear walkthrough of Paxos and Multi-Paxos, recorded for the Raft study and best watched alongside its Raft companion lecture.

GOTO Conferences · 46K views · 9 years ago

When replicas disagree instead of agreeing on one leader, this approachable primer on operational transformation and CRDTs is what HN keeps linking in local-first threads.

Strange Loop Conference · 56K views · 12 years ago

FoundationDB ran its whole database inside a simulator with injected faults to find rare bugs, and HN treats this as the defining talk on simulation testing.

Erlang Solutions · 50K views · 12 years ago

Rick Reed shows how a handful of engineers ran WhatsApp's message load on FreeBSD and Erlang, with real server counts and the bottlenecks they fixed.

Amazon Web Services · 133K views · 9 years ago

Moving down to the physical layer, Hamilton tours how AWS builds its networking, power and custom silicon, which HN considers the best look inside a cloud provider.

CppCon · 137K views · 9 years ago

Performance at the scale of one data structure: the step-by-step story of SwissTable, the design that now sits behind Abseil, Rust's HashMap and Go's maps.

Strange Loop Conference · 119K views · 11 years ago

Before trusting any benchmark, learn why averages mislead and what coordinated omission is; some commenters call this talk life-changing.

GOTO Conferences · 101K views · 9 years ago

Cantrill recounts the day a mistyped command rebooted a whole Joyent datacenter, which HN remembers as the best postmortem it has seen, and a funny one.