PickVidsBest Cloud, DevOps & reliability Videos
The 89 Cloud, DevOps & reliability videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 1 introductory, 45 intermediate, 27 for a general viewer, and 16 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include Amazon Web Services, O'Reilly, InfoQ.
AWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 talk on how AWS limits the blast radius of failures.
The future of Linux Containers
Solomon Hykes shows Docker to the public for the first time in a five-minute lightning talk at PyCon 2013.
AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 session on how DynamoDB was built as a hyper-scale NoSQL database.
Kubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]
The official Kubernetes documentary, part 1, tells how a handful of Google engineers, inspired by Docker's success, built a container orchestrator.
GCP NEXT 2016: Day 1 Keynote (Mar 23)
The day one keynote of Google Cloud's 2016 GCP NEXT conference, with Sundar Pichai, Diane Greene, Eric Schmidt, Urs Holzle and customers.
Larry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?
A short clip of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, speaking to financial analysts in September 2008, questioning what cloud computing even means.
Friday evening lightning talks
A PyCon 2013 block of Friday evening lightning talks.
I just want to serve 5 terabytes.
A short satirical video, originally titled Broccoli Man, in which an engineer who only wants to serve 5 terabytes gets tangled in Google's internal resource and production processes.
AWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)
An AWS re:Invent 2019 session for advanced DynamoDB users on design patterns used by large customers, including Amazon retail.
Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"
A four-minute Velocity 2011 talk in which Artur Bergman, then at Wikia, argues bluntly and with profanity that SSDs should replace spinning disks in servers.
dotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't one
John Graham-Cumming of Cloudflare talks at dotScale 2015 about handling roughly 10 trillion log lines a month.
AWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed Systems
An AWS re:Invent 2014 talk on the core distributed systems primitives behind AWS and Amazon.com, such as consensus, key-value stores and transactional logging.
OpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, Google
Urs Hoelzle, Google's SVP of infrastructure, gives the 2012 Open Networking Summit keynote on how Google adopted OpenFlow and software-defined networking in its own networks.
Velocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"
Amazon's Jon Jenkins at Velocity 2011 on how operations can drive revenue and on Amazon's highly available, autonomous architectures.
AWS re:Invent 2018: Powering Next-Gen EC2 Instances: Deep Dive into the Nitro System (CMP303-R1)
An AWS re:Invent 2018 session diving into the Nitro system, a set of hardware offload and security building blocks behind next-generation EC2 instances.
NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet
A Google Tech Talk by Raymond Blum on how Google backs up massive amounts of data such as Gmail and Picasa.
All of our data is GONE!
Linus Tech Tips documents a major RAID failure on its Whonnock server and the attempt to recover the lost data with a data recovery firm.
Tesla Virtual Power Plant
A QCon London 2020 talk by Tesla engineers on the architecture of Tesla's Virtual Power Plant.
Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"
James Hamilton of AWS gives a Velocity 2010 keynote on datacenter infrastructure innovation, focused on power and cooling costs and a breakdown of where datacenter spending goes.
Linux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)
A Google I/O 2019 talk explaining the architecture of Linux on Chromebooks (Crostini), a sandboxed Linux development environment built on containers inside a VM, with demos and design rationale.
Dev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
Kevin Fang comically retells GitLab's 2017 incident in which an engineer deleted the production database, based on the company's postmortems.
The Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude
A comedy video in which a salesperson demands that a web developer fix a down website, with the two talking past each other.
Keynote: KubeCon Opening Keynote - Kelsey Hightower, Google
Kelsey Hightower's opening keynote at KubeCon, delivered as a live-demo style talk about Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling.
AWS re:Invent 2017: How Netflix Tunes Amazon EC2 Instances for Performance (CMP325)
A Netflix performance engineer presents how Netflix tunes EC2 instances, covering instance type choice, Xen modes, SR-IOV and kernel tuning.