PickVidsBest Networking & internet infrastructure Videos
The 78 Networking & internet infrastructure videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 3 introductory, 34 intermediate, 26 for a general viewer, and 15 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 NANOG, Tom Scott, LastWeekTonight.
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need
Tom7 (suckerpinch) builds and evaluates a series of absurd hard drives, including storage made from ping packets across the internet.
This Video Is Sponsored By ███ VPN
Tom Scott writes a more honest VPN ad, with the sponsor's name redacted, and explains why the typical claims in VPN advertising are misleading.
A New Way to look at Networking
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk argues that networking should be rethought around named data rather than host-to-host conversations.
Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
John Oliver's 13-minute Last Week Tonight segment explains the 2014 net neutrality fight over cable companies creating unequal internet speeds.
Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile
Tom Scott explains for Computerphile how Unicode and UTF-8 grew out of messy older character encodings to become the web's standard.
8 Frames in 16ms: Rollback Networking in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2
A 2018 GDC talk by NetherRealm's Michael Stallone on the engine changes, optimizations and tooling needed to roll back and re-simulate up to 8 frames in 16 ms in Mortal Kombat and Injustice 2.
A New Way to look at Networking
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk on rethinking networking around named content instead of host-to-host conversations.
Why SpaceX is Making Starlink
Real Engineering explains why SpaceX is building Starlink, including the economics of satellite internet.
AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets
Eric Brandwine's AWS re:Invent 2015 session on how Amazon VPC networking works.
Email Hates the Living
A lightning-style conference talk by Ricardo Signes about the horrors of email: its protocols, formats and decades of accumulated quirks.
Ricardo Signes - 闇のEメール伝説
Ricardo Signes' YAPC::Asia Tokyo 2011 talk on the legends and horrors of email: how messy the SMTP and email standards are in practice.
Defeating Ssl Using Sslstrip (Marlinspike Blackhat)
Moxie Marlinspike's Black Hat talk presenting sslstrip, which defeats SSL in practice by intercepting the http-to-https redirect.
Starlink revisions, Nov 2018
Mark Handley of UCL looks at how SpaceX's November 2018 revisions to the Starlink constellation affect network behavior.
A New Way to look at Networking
Van Jacobson's 2006 Google Tech Talk argues for rethinking networking around named data rather than host-to-host connections.
High Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle Drake
Kyle Drake of Neocities explains the bandwidth pricing pitfalls of the big cloud providers.
Defcon 21 - The Secret Life of SIM Cards
A DEF CON 21 talk by Karl Koscher and Eric Butler on how SIM cards work, including Java Card applets, the SIM toolkit and the OS running on the card.
Defcon 20 - Dan Tentler - Drinking from the caffeine firehose we know as shodan
Dan Tentler's DEF CON 20 talk on odd things he found on the internet through Shodan, such as stoplights, power systems and other non-computer devices exposed online.
Susan Crawford on Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry & Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age
Susan Crawford talks at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center about her book Captive Audience.
Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)
Jared Mauch tells how he got fed up with poor internet options in rural Michigan and built his own fiber network to his town.
Low Latency Routing in Space
A short visualization from HotNets researchers of routing and latency over SpaceX's proposed Starlink constellation, based on its FCC filings.
The Secrets Of Cornwall - Part 1 - Communications
A documentary on how Cornwall became a hub for the world's communications, from the first transatlantic radio signal to modern undersea fibre cables.
Using ground relays with Starlink
Mark Handley of UCL explains, with simulation visualizations, how early Starlink satellites without inter-satellite links could still give low-latency wide-area communication by hopping via ground relays.
Netdev 0x16 - Keynote: It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter
John Ousterhout's Netdev 0x16 keynote arguing that nearly every aspect of TCP is wrong for the datacenter, from connections and streams to reliable delivery and congestion control.
DEF CON 19 - Artem Dinaburg - Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation
Artem Dinaburg's DEF CON 19 talk on bit-squatting, where DRAM bit flips cause DNS requests to go to domains one bit off from the intended one.