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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by expathacker »

10+ deployments per day from Velocity 2009. It was really a pivotal talk in the early days of the DevOps movement

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOe18KhtT4

Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability of the World's Most Popular Micro-blogging Site by John Adams (then from Twitter)at Velocity 2009 (Velocity 2009 was really an incredibly pivotal and influential conference in the DevOps movement).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X_ed6GPofQ&t=26s

Bootstrapping an Infrastructure by Steve Traugott at Lisa 1998. I don't know of any videos of the talk, but the related paper eventually lead to Puppet and the beginning of the modern configuration management software

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Bootstrapping-an-Infra...

There is no talent shortage by Andrew Schaefer, co-founder of Puppet from Velocity NYC 2013.

https://vimeo.com/75670082

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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by yesenadam »

mythz wrote: post #6

Bret Victor talks are inspirational: - Inventing on Principal https://vimeo.com/36579366 - Stop Drawing Dead Fish https://vimeo.com/64895205

Yep, I thought Inventing on Principle was the best computer-related talk I've ever watched. Not easy to describe what it's about! Design, tools, art, UI, visualization, invention, life.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by sjellis »

drainyard wrote: post #7

Two of my favorites: code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIkqP4JbkE CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc They're mostly about C++ and cache aware/data oriented programming.

The Mike Acton talk is really valuable to anyone interested in efficient software, and doesn't have so much C++ as to be a barrier: I found out about it from a Go developer.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by sprice »

Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development if illumos by Brian Cantrill https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

Quote copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

"As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There has been no entity in human history with less complexity or nuance to it than Oracle. And I gotta say, as someone who has seen that complexity for my entire life, it's very hard to get used to that idea. It's like, 'surely this is more complicated!' but it's like: Wow, this is really simple! This company is very straightforward, in its defense. This company is about one man, his alter-ego, and what he wants to inflict upon humanity -- that's it! ...Ship mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money. Yeah... you talk to Oracle, it's like, 'no, we don't fucking make dreams happen -- we make money!' ...You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle."

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