Software architecture & design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (166)
Software architecture & design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 166 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 743 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Software architecture and design: object-oriented programming, design patterns, clean architecture, API design, microservices vs monoliths, data-oriented design, versioning, abstraction, simplicity, Alan Kay, Uncle Bob.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz: “this talk captures all the important values in a single example.” — an HN commenter, 2016.
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15 mo on HNRailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz
14 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
13 mo on HN"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman
12 mo on HNHow To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
11 mo on HNThe Value of Values with Rich Hickey
10 mo on HNOverwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode
11 mo on HNSolving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald
10 mo on HNLecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
11 mo on HNAlan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful
10 mo on HNA Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google
10 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
10 mo on HNEffective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey
9 mo on HNBrian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts
10 mo on HNRuby Midwest 2011 - Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin
9 mo on HNRustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West
11 mo on HNHammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey
9 mo on HNJonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech
9 mo on HNRuby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
9 mo on HNThe Only Unbreakable Law
8 mo on HN"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
9 mo on HNSpec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey
9 mo on HNCppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"
9 mo on HNHow I program C
9 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Bad
9 mo on HNThe Language of the System - Rich Hickey
8 mo on HNStop Writing Classes
9 mo on HNPete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU
7 mo on HNBottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian
8 mo on HN"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong
8 mo on HNJonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)
8 mo on HNRails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey
8 mo on HNCasey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
7 mo on HNClean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1
7 mo on HNAlan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity
7 mo on HNDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin
7 mo on HNUnix and Google
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Mentioned in HN threads about software architecture & design, though never formally recommended:
Microservices · Anthony Marcar - Clojure At Scale @WalmartLabs · Sky: An Experiment Writing Dart for Mobile (Dart Developer Summit 2015) · Scala Collections: Why Not? · Carl Sagan: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. · React.js Conf 2016 - Ben Alpert - What Lies Ahead · Mastering Chaos - A Netflix Guide to Microservices · Optional - The Mother of All Bikesheds by Stuart Marks · Google I/O 2014 - Android fireside chat · The Next Programming Language - Douglas Crockford - code::dive 2022 · Bob Martin SOLID Principles of Object Oriented and Agile Design