Distributed systems Videos Recommended on Hacker News (81)

Distributed systems is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 81 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 256 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Distributed systems: consensus, Paxos, Raft, replication, CAP theorem, Kafka, event logs, Erlang/OTP, scaling services across machines, fault tolerance, large-scale architectures at Google, Netflix, Facebook.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019: “Watch this if you want to understand why so many people fall in love with it.” — an HN commenter, 2021.