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Software architecture & design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (177)

Software architecture & design is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 177 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.

Software architecture & design Videos Recommended on Hacker News (177)

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RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz

"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

The Value of Values with Rich Hickey

Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode

Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald

Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp

Alan Kay - Normal Considered Harmful

A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"

Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure - Rich Hickey

Brian Goetz - Stewardship: the Sobering Parts

Ruby Midwest 2011 - Keynote: Architecture the Lost Years by Robert Martin

RustConf 2018 - Closing Keynote - Using Rust For Game Development by Catherine West

Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

Jonathan Blow - How to program independent games - CSUA Speech

Ruby Conf 12 - Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt

The Only Unbreakable Law

"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)

Spec-ulation Keynote - Rich Hickey

CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

How I program C

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad

The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

Stop Writing Classes

Pete Hunt: React: Rethinking best practices -- JSConf EU

Bottom Up vs Top Down Design in Clojure - Mark Bastian

"The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong

Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only)

Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey

Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025

Clean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1

Alan Kay, 2015: Power of Simplicity

Domain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin

Unix and Google