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Databases & storage Videos Recommended on Hacker News (72)
Databases & storage is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 72 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 198 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Databases and storage: SQL, SQLite, Postgres, NoSQL, query engines, indexing, transactions, filesystems, storage engines, data modeling, stream processing, event sourcing.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson: “this is one of the most amazing talks on distributed systems” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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2 mo on HNThe Maximal Graph - Wilker Silva
ClojureTV
2 HN recommender · 2019–2020
2 mo on HNThe Worst Typo I Ever Made
Tom Scott
2 HN recommender · 2020–2026
2 mo on HNSeattle Conference on Scalability: YouTube Scalability
Google TechTalks
2 HN recommender · 2008–2013
2 mo on HNBetrFS: A Right-Optimized Write-Optimized File System
Microsoft Research
2 HN recommender · 2016–2023
2 mo on HNZFS Native Encryption by Tom Caputi
OpenZFS
2 HN recommender · 2016–2022
2 mo on HN"Datafun: a functional query language" by Michael Arntzenius
Strange Loop Conference
2 HN recommender · 2018–2025
2 mo on HNRust at speed — building a fast concurrent database
Jon Gjengset
2 HN recommender · 2019–2022
2 mo on HNFoundry 2022 Operating System Demo
Palantir
2 HN recommender · 2022–2026
2 mo on HNModern SQL: A lot has changed since SQL-92 by Markus Winand
Devoxx
2 HN recommender · 2019–2023
2 mo on HNJune 2021 FreeBSD Developer Summit: Raid-Z Expansion
FreeBSD
2 HN recommender · 2021–2023
2 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)
Amazon Web Services
2 HN recommender · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNYour web app but good: Aaron Boodman (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HNA Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem by Marshall Kirk McKusick
EuroBSDCon
1 HN recommend · 2020–2023
1 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)
AWS Events
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HNLucas Cavalcanti & Edward Wible - Exploring four hidden superpowers of Datomic
ClojureTV
1 HN recommend · 2015–2024
1 mo on HNEvent Sourcing • Greg Young • GOTO 2014
GOTO Conferences
1 HN recommend · 2015–2026
1 mo on HNThesis: Partial State in Dataflow-Based Materialized Views
Jon Gjengset
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HNVelocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"
O'Reilly
1 HN recommend · 2011–2021
1 mo on HNGreg Young — A Decade of DDD, CQRS, Event Sourcing
Domain-Driven Design Europe
1 HN recommend · 2016–2026
1 mo on HNThe past, present, and future of local-first - Martin Kleppmann (Local-First Conf)
Local-First Conf
1 HN recommend · 2025–2025
1 mo on HNEscape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp
Arthur Gleckler
1 HN recommend · 2016–2020
1 mo on HNThe Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2017
GOTO Conferences
1 HN recommend · 2018–2022
1 mo on HNSQLite: Protégé of PostgreSQL
Andrea Ross
1 HN recommend · 2014–2017
1 mo on HNH3: Tiling the Earth with Hexagons
Uber Engineering
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HNNYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2014–2021
1 mo on HNAll of our data is GONE!
Linus Tech Tips
1 HN recommend · 2019–2021
1 mo on HNAn Introduction to SQLite
Google TechTalks
1 HN recommend · 2011–2018
1 mo on HNDev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos Ensues
Kevin Fang
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HNMartin Kleppmann | Kafka Summit SF 2018 Keynote (Is Kafka a Database?)
Confluent, an IBM Company
1 HN recommend · 2018–2020
1 mo on HNScaling ZFS for NVMe - Allan Jude - EuroBSDcon 2022
EuroBSDCon
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
0 mo on HNAWS re:Invent 2016: Move Exabyte-Scale Data Sets with AWS Snowmobile
Amazon Web Services
0 HN recommender · 2017–2024
0 mo on HNOpenZFS Office Hours with Matt Ahrens
OpenZFS
0 HN recommender · 2014–2023
0 mo on HNFilesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet
The Linux Foundation
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HNJVMLS 2015 - Compilers are Databases
Java
0 HN recommender · 2016–2022
0 mo on HNEpisode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale
gar1t
0 HN recommender · 2013–2026
0 mo on HNOracle is destined to beat Amazon at cloud database: Larry Ellison
Fox Business
0 HN recommender · 2018–2020