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Best Cloud, DevOps & reliability videos, as recommended on Hacker News

67 videos about cloud, devops & reliability that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2010 and 2026. Mostly talk, demo, comedy. Channels that come up most: Amazon Web Services, O'Reilly, GOTO Conferences, der8auer EN. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems": HN people cite it constantly as the clearest explanation of normalization of deviance and how complex systems drift toward failure.

• talkVelocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"O'Reilly · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• talkDebugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind • Bryan Cantrill • GOTO 2017GOTO Conferences · 8 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Deep Dive: Advanced Design Patterns for DynamoDB (DAT401)Amazon Web Services · 12 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• demoLiterate Devops with EmacsHoward Abrams · 8 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• talkContainers From Scratch • Liz Rice • GOTO 2018GOTO Conferences · 6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• documentaryOver 200,000 Servers in One Place! Visiting Hetzner in Falkenstein (Germany)der8auer EN · 6 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkBryan Cantrill from Joyent on Manta: internet-facing object storage facility that features computeAI Council · 4 HN recommenders · 2014–2026
• talkZebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017Code & Supply · 6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
• talkElixirConf 2018 - Docker and OTP Friends or Foes - Daniel AzumaElixirConf · 4 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkStanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the ComputerStanford Online · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• talkAWS re:Invent 2016: Tuesday Night Live with James HamiltonAmazon Web Services · 5 HN recommenders · 2016–2023
• talkHow We've Scaled DropboxStanford · 5 HN recommenders · 2014–2023
• talkDtrace ReviewGoogleTalksArchive · 4 HN recommenders · 2013–2026
• talkWho Destroyed Three Mile Island? - Nickolas Means | The Lead Developer Austin 2018LeadDev · 4 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• talkGolang UK Conf. 2016 - Liz Rice - What is a container, really? Let's write one in Go from scratchGopherCon UK · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2019
• demointroducing copyparty, the FOSS file servertripflag · 7 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• talkVelocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"O'Reilly · 3 HN recommenders · 2013–2021
• talk"Stop Rate Limiting! Capacity Management Done Right" by Jon MooreStrange Loop Conference · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2024
• talkCgroups, namespaces, and beyond: what are containers made from?Docker · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• talkRails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier HanssonRuby on Rails · 6 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• talkAWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion PacketsAmazon Web Services · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• podcastOld Geeks Yell At Cloud (with Andrew Clay Shafer & Bryan Cantrill)Arrested DevOps · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2023
• talkRun containers on bare metal already!Bryan Cantrill · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025
• explainerWhy Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more!Dave's Garage · 3 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
• documentaryExposing The Dark Side of America's AI Data Center Explosion | View From Above | Business InsiderBusiness Insider · 2 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• talkHigh Volume, Bandwidth Heavy Infrastructure On The Cheap - Kyle DrakePDX Node · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• talkJared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)NLNOG · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• explainerOrbital Data Centers Yes or NoEager Space · 3 HN recommenders · 2025–2026
• tutorialA walk through of installing Synapse+Riot+Jitsi from scratch on DebianMatrixdotorg · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• talkMikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."O'Reilly · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2020
• interviewHow Toy Story 2 Almost Got Deleted: Stories From Pixar Animation: ENTV@HOLLYWOOD · 2 HN recommenders · 2016–2026
• commentaryGitHub Actions Feels Badfasterthanlime · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• talkKubernetes for SysAdmins | Kelsey Hightower at PuppetConf | Talk & DemoPerforce Puppet · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
• talkRick Reed - WhatsApp: Half a billion unsuspecting FreeBSD usersiX · 2 HN recommenders · 2015–2019
• talkillumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernelillumos · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2019
• talkDesign Microservice Architectures the Right WayInfoQ · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
• talkdotScale 2014 - Robert Kennedy - Life in the Trenches of healthcare.govdotconferences · 3 HN recommenders · 2014–2015
• talkAWS re:Invent 2014: AWS Innovation at Scale with James Hamilton (SPOT301)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2014–2020
• talkVelocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys PeO'Reilly · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023
• talkChatOps at GitHub - Jesse NewlandRubyfuza · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2021
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: [REPEAT 1] A Serverless Journey: AWS Lambda Under the Hood (SRV409-R1)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2019
• demoHetzner shows Special AM5 Board with 90° Rotated Socketder8auer EN · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2025
• talkContainer Hacks and Fun ImagesJessie Frazelle · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
• explainerDoes It Make Sense To Put Data Centers In Space? Can They Really Cost Less To Operate?Scott Manley · 3 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• comedyPositive Affirmations for Site Reliability EngineersKRAZAM · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2025
• talkCppCon 2019: Matt Godbolt “Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes”CppCon · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: How AWS Minimizes the Blast Radius of Failures (ARC338)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2023
• demoThe future of Linux Containersdotcloudtv · 2 HN recommenders · 2013–2025
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon DynamoDB Under the Hood: How We Built a Hyper-Scale Database (DAT321)Amazon Web Services · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• documentaryKubernetes: The Documentary [PART 1]CultRepo · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2025
• commentaryLarry Ellison - What The Hell Is Cloud Computing?BadIdea2008 · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2023
• talkFriday evening lightning talksNext Day Video · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2026
• comedyI just want to serve 5 terabytes.Benjamin Staffin · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2026
• talkAWS re:Invent 2019: [REPEAT 1] Amazon DynamoDB deep dive: Advanced design patterns (DAT403-R1)AWS Events · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2022
• talkVelocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"O'Reilly · 1 HN recommender · 2011–2021
• talkdotScale 2015 - John Graham-Cumming - I got 10 trillion problems, but logging ain't onedotconferences · 1 HN recommender · 2015–2018
• talkAWS re:Invent 2014 | (SPOT302) Under the Covers of AWS: Its Core Distributed SystemsAmazon Web Services · 1 HN recommender · 2021–2025
• talkOpenFlow @ Google - Urs Hoelzle, GoogleOpen Networking Summit · 1 HN recommender · 2013–2015
• talkVelocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"O'Reilly · 1 HN recommender · 2012–2018
• talkAWS re:Invent 2018: Powering Next-Gen EC2 Instances: Deep Dive into the Nitro System (CMP303-R1)Amazon Web Services · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2025
• talkNYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the InternetGoogle TechTalks · 1 HN recommender · 2014–2021
• commentaryAll of our data is GONE!Linus Tech Tips · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2021
• talkTesla Virtual Power PlantInfoQ · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2024
• talkVelocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"O'Reilly · 1 HN recommender · 2010–2023
• talkLinux for Chromebooks: Secure Development (Google I/O ’19)Chrome for Developers · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2024
• comedyDev Deletes Entire Production Database, Chaos EnsuesKevin Fang · 1 HN recommender · 2023–2024
• comedyThe Website is Down #1: Sales Guy vs. Web DudeJosh Weinberg · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2024