Distributed Systems
MIT's flagship graduate distributed systems course examining MapReduce, RPC, Google File System, primary-backup replication, Raft consensus, ZooKeeper, and distributed transactions.
Systems & CS
Distributed systems, databases, operating systems, compilers, programming languages, networking, and computer architecture.
Essential Systems & CS courses
Complete university lecture courses in systems & cs.
Intro to Database Systems
Inside modern relational and analytical DBMS internals: relational algebra, slotted-page storage, log-structured merge trees, columnar compression, buffer pool management, and hash/B+Tree indexes.
Operating System Engineering
Dissects UNIX operating system design around xv6 on RISC-V: page tables, traps, system calls, interrupts, locking, thread scheduling, crash-safe file systems, and virtual memory.
Performance Engineering of Software Systems
Systematic engineering of fast software: Bentley optimization rules, bit hacks, compiler vectorization, Cilk work-span parallelism, cache-oblivious algorithms, memory allocators, and lock-free synchronization.
Distributed Systems
Martin Kleppmann's concise Cambridge lecture sequence on physical and logical clocks, causality, broadcast protocols, Raft consensus, replication, CRDTs, and distributed transactions.
Computer Systems Security
Graduate-caliber engineering study of buffer overflows, privilege separation, capabilities, sandboxing, OS kernel isolation, web security models, network attacks, and side channels.
Systems & CS Double Feature
Two complementary systems & cs talks paired around a central intellectual tension.
Double Feature2 talks · 119m total
The Unfinished Medium of Computing
Alan Kay's critique of why software stopped short of becoming a dynamic intellectual medium, paired with Bret Victor's live principles for immediate-feedback tools.
Part I · Dynabook & dynamic media1:04:33
The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (OOPSLA Keynote)
Standalone Systems & CS talks
209Self-contained lectures, Nobel addresses, and research colloquia you can watch in one sitting.
Overview and Introduction to Lisp
Harold Abelson's inaugural lecture for MIT's 6.001, "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs," introduces Lisp as a foundational tool for computational abstraction.
WiredTiger: The Databaseology Lectures (CMU Fall 2015)
Keith Bostic presents WiredTiger, discussing its architecture and underlying principles in this segment from Carnegie Mellon University's rigorous Databaseology Lecture series.
Dancing Links: A Data Structure for Exact Covering Problems
Donald Knuth's 24th annual Christmas lecture, detailing the elegant 'Dancing Links' algorithm and its surprising effectiveness for solving exact covering problems across diverse applications.
Programming Methodology: Course Introduction and Overview
An introductory lecture from Stanford's CS106A, outlining core programming principles, object-oriented design, and the fundamentals of Java for aspiring computer scientists.
Alan Kay: The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet (2003 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture)
Alan Kay, recipient of the 2003 Turing Award, discusses the unrealized potential of personal computing, drawing connections between early conceptualizations like the Dynabook and the evolution of object-oriented programming paradigms exemplified by Smalltalk.
Inventing on Principle
Bret Victor's iconic live demonstration arguing that creators need immediate visual connection to what they create—introducing continuous time-scrubbing execution for code, circuits, and math.
Systems & CS study paths
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Operating Systems, UNIX & Systems Craft
Kernel isolation, composable pipes, SQLite bytecode, Git, and Linux tracing
Bell Labs · MIT · Carnegie Mellon University +2
6 curated lecturesOpen path →
7 steps · 10h4 universities
Silicon Gates to High-Performance Analytical Engines
Digital architecture, compiler vectorization, C++ zero-overhead design, and columnar OLAP
ETH Zürich · MIT · University of Edinburgh +1
7 curated lecturesOpen path →
7 steps · 6h3 universities
Distributed Consensus, Clocks & Storage Engines
From unreliable networks and physical time to Raft and page-level durability
MIT · University of Cambridge · Carnegie Mellon University
7 curated lecturesOpen path →
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