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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6 mo on HNJames Powell: So you want to be a Python expert? | PyData Seattle 2017
6 mo on HNCasey Muratori | Smart-Pointers, RAII, ZII? Becoming an N+2 programmer
6 mo on HNFunctional architecture - The pits of success - Mark Seemann
7 mo on HNJoe Armstrong & Alan Kay - Joe Armstrong interviews Alan Kay
6 mo on HNIntroduction to NoSQL • Martin Fowler • GOTO 2012
7 mo on HNCppCon 2017: Titus Winters “C++ as a "Live at Head" Language”
6 mo on HN"Transducers" by Rich Hickey
6 mo on HNThe Clean Architecture in Python
5 mo on HNRich Hickey rants about HttpServletRequest in 1080p: Death By Specificity from Clojure Made Simple
6 mo on HNThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Multiple Dispatch | Stefan Karpinski | JuliaCon 2019
6 mo on HNTigerStyle! (Or How To Design Safer Systems in Less Time) by Joran Dirk Greef
4 mo on HNInteractive notebooks ~ Pluto.jl | Fons van der Plas | JuliaCon 2020
5 mo on HNObject-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples
6 mo on HNSimplicity Ain't Easy - Stuart Halloway
5 mo on HNClojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey
5 mo on HNFounder School Session: The Future Doesn't Have to Be Incremental
5 mo on HNAlan Kay at OOPSLA 1997 - The computer revolution hasnt happened yet
5 mo on HNLeslie Lamport: Thinking Above the Code
5 mo on HNChristopher Alexander - Patterns in Architecture
5 mo on HNConstraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain — Runar Bjarnason
5 mo on HNAre We There Yet - Rich Hickey
5 mo on HNRails Conf 2013 The Magic Tricks of Testing by Sandi Metz
4 mo on HNAlan Kay - Programming and Scaling
5 mo on HNCheng Lou - On the Spectrum of Abstraction at react-europe 2016
5 mo on HNHacker Way: Rethinking Web App Development at Facebook
5 mo on HNBuilding a Better Web Browser - James Mickens - Harvard CS Colloquium 2015
4 mo on HNRaymond Hettinger, Keynote on Concurrency, PyBay 2017
4 mo on HN"Finding bugs without running or even looking at code" by Jay Parlar
5 mo on HNAndrew Kelley: A Practical Guide to Applying Data Oriented Design (DoD)
4 mo on HNGreg Young - CQRS and Event Sourcing - Code on the Beach 2014
4 mo on HNStuart Halloway - Narcissistic Design
4 mo on HNElm Europe 2017 - Evan Czaplicki - The life of a file
5 mo on HNImmediate-Mode Graphical User Interfaces - 2005
5 mo on HN"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance
4 mo on HNDesign Patterns vs Anti pattern in APL by Aaron W Hsu at FnConf17
4 mo on HNDomain Modeling Made Functional - Scott Wlaschin - KanDDDinsky 2019
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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