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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3 mo on HNOm Next - David Nolen
3 mo on HNRailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something
4 mo on HN"Data Driven UIs, Incrementally" by Yaron Minsky
4 mo on HNJ B Rainsberger Integrated Tests Are A Scam HD
3 mo on HN"Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly," Bertrand Meyer
4 mo on HNKeynote - JSON Graph: Reactive REST at Netflix
4 mo on HN"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon Moore
3 mo on HNCppCon 2015: Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures"
3 mo on HNDan Abramov The wet codebase
3 mo on HNNordic.js 2014 • Douglas Crockford - The Better Parts
3 mo on HNProgramming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012
3 mo on HNMountainWest RubyConf 2014 - But Really, You Should Learn Smalltalk
3 mo on HNA New Way to look at Networking
3 mo on HNProcedural Programming: It Never Went Away — Kevlin Henney | Build Stuff
3 mo on HNC++ Seasoning
3 mo on HNGoogle Developers Day US - Python Design Patterns
3 mo on HN"The Clean Code Talks -- Inheritance, Polymorphism, & Testing"
3 mo on HNBob Nystrom - Is There More to Game Architecture than ECS?
3 mo on HNLichess founder Thibault Duplessis lectures on Lichess (2017)
3 mo on HNModern C and What We Can Learn From It - Luca Sas [ ACCU 2021 ]
3 mo on HNSoftware Art Thou: Glenn Vanderburg - Real Software Engineering
3 mo on HNWhy Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository
3 mo on HNWhat I Wish I Had Known Before Scaling Uber to 1000 Services • Matt Ranney • GOTO 2016
3 mo on HNKeynote: What is a Component (and Why)? - Luke Wagner, Distinguished Engineer, Fastly
3 mo on HNVisualising software architecture with the C4 model - Simon Brown, Agile on the Beach 2019
3 mo on HNCppCon 2018: Stoyan Nikolov “OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design”
2 mo on HNData Oriented GUI in Rust by Raph Levien - Bay Area Rust Meetup
2 mo on HNRethinking CS Education | Alan Kay, CrossRoads 2015
2 mo on HNRobert C Martin - Clean Architecture and Design
2 mo on HN"Uncle" Bob Martin
2 mo on HNDesign Microservice Architectures the Right Way
2 mo on HNNathaniel J. Smith - Trio: Async concurrency for mere mortals - PyCon 2018
2 mo on HNGlenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline
2 mo on HNStuart Sierra - Components Just Enough Structure
2 mo on HNYehuda Katz - Why Rails is Hard (Railsberry 2012)
2 mo on HNSebastian Markbage: Minimal API Surface Area | JSConf EU 2014
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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