Tech Talks Weekly #41: 🔥 10 Most-Watched Talks of 2024, AWS re:Invent 2024, How to Build a Database, Deep Dive Into DDD Aggregates, Deep Dive Into DynamoDB, ...

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Welcome to the 41st issue of Tech Talks Weekly! This time, we have plenty of new talks from the past 7 days presented at various conferences.

Most notably, talks from AWS re:Invent 2024 that took place just a few days ago have just been published. You can find them at the bottom of this post.

On top of that, I prepared a list of the top 10 most-watched talks of 2024 so far that you can find below. Stay tuned for a more comprehensive summary of the most-watched talks this year in early 2025!

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🔥 10 Most-Watched Talks of 2024

Here are the top 10 most-watched talks of 2024. Stay tuned as in 2025, I’m going to publish a comprehensive 2024 summary of the most-watched talks, grouped by conference.

1. "Beyond the Hype: A Realistic Look at Large Language Models • Jodie Burchell • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +138k views ⸱ 19 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 52s

2. "What Is This OpenTelemetry Thing? • Martin Thwaites • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +133k views ⸱ 21 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 34s

3. "Architecture Modernization: Aligning Software, Strategy & Structure • Nick Tune • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +125k views ⸱ 11 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 52s

4. "DuckDB: Crunching Data Anywhere, From Laptops to Servers • Gabor Szarnyas • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +120k views ⸱ 23 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 36m 30s

5. "Understand the Next Phase of Web Development - Steve Sanderson - NDC London 2024" ⸱ +112k views ⸱ 23 Apr 2024 ⸱ 00h 57m 49s

6. "Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet" ⸱ +102k views ⸱ 09 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 16s

7. "A Field Guide to Reliability Engineering at Zalando • Heinrich Hartmann • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +93k views ⸱ 18 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 53s

8. "Inside GPT – Large Language Models Demystified • Alan Smith • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +92k views ⸱ 21 Aug 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 21s

9. "Java, How Fast Can You Parse 1 Billion Rows of Weather Data? • Roy van Rijn • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +91k views ⸱ 12 Jul 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 16s

10. "Serverless Compute at the Heart of Your EDA • Julian Wood • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +78k views ⸱ 09 Oct 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 56s

🏆 Featured talks of the week

Here are the must-watch talks uploaded since the last TTW issue.

1. "How to Build a Database - Liam McLennan - CPH DevFest 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 22s

2. "Exposing the not-so-secret practices of the cult of DDD - Chris Klug -" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 10s

3. "Bjarne Stroustrup - The Essence of C++" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 46s

4. "5 Common Mistakes In User Stories • Dave Farley • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 17m 37s

5. "Aggregates: An In-depth Examination by Thomas Coopman Gien Verschatse - DDD Europe" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 09 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 14s

6. "Site-Speed That Sticks | Harry Roberts | performance.now() 2024" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 48s

7. "Comprehensive protection for Infrastructure and Web Apps | Lukasz Karwacki | Conf42 DevSecOps 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 16s

📆 New talks

Here’s the complete list of all the talks uploaded since the last Tech Talks Weekly issue, grouped by conference, and ordered by the number of views for your convenience.

CPH DevFest (by NDC) 2024

1. "Exposing the not-so-secret practices of the cult of DDD - Chris Klug -" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 10s

2. "Rust-ifying Your C# Codebase: A Tale of Adventure and Transformation - Chris Woody Woodruff" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 48s

3. "How to Build a Database - Liam McLennan - CPH DevFest 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 22s

4. "Let's build a .NET YouTube player! For which platform? All of them! - Steve Bilogan" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 58s

5. "LLMs gone wild - Tess Ferrandez-Norlander - CPH DevFest 2024" ⸱ +900 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 57m 14s

6. "The Future of Cloud-Native Application Development with Radius - Loek Duys - CPH DevFest 2024" ⸱ +400 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 20s

GOTO 2024

1. "5 Common Mistakes In User Stories • Dave Farley • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 17m 37s

2. "Dynamic & Proud • Malcolm Sparks • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 09 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 30m 08s

3. "Effective Platform Engineering • Chankramath, Cheneweth, Oliver, Alvarez & Reisz • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 53m 08s

4. "Master Software Architecture • Maciej «MJ» Jedrzejewski & Artur Skowroński" ⸱ +700 views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 16s

5. "Future of EDA Panel • Pogosova, Shea, Armstrong, Gasch, DeBrie, Wood & Johnson • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 55s

6. "How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets • Barbara Oakley & Charles Humble • GOTO 2024" ⸱ +600 views ⸱ 10 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 10s

7. "10x DevEx: Shift-Left API Governance = CycleTime/2 • Naresh Jain & Hari Krishnan • GOTO 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 08s

CITYJS 2024

1. "Manfred Steyer -Changed Rules: Architectures with Lightweight Stores" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 07 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 22m 58s

DDD Europe 2024

1. "Aggregates: An In-depth Examination by Thomas Coopman Gien Verschatse - DDD Europe" ⸱ +800 views ⸱ 09 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 14s

performance.now() 2024

1. "Site-Speed That Sticks | Harry Roberts | performance.now() 2024" ⸱ +500 views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 48s

2. "Accessible is Performant | Eric Bailey | performance.now() 2024" ⸱ +200 views ⸱ 10 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 24s

3. "Brian Louis Ramirez at performance.sync()" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 16m 17s

Conf42 DevSecOps 2024

1. "Comprehensive protection for Infrastructure and Web Apps | Lukasz Karwacki | Conf42 DevSecOps 2024" ⸱ +100 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 35m 16s

2. "Preventing Accidental Secret Commits with Gitleaks | Dewan Ahmed | Conf42 DevSecOps 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 26s

3. "AIOps: New Approaches to Reduce Alert Noise | Birol Yildiz | Conf42 DevSecOps 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 26m 00s

4. "AI Is Coming For Our Secrets | Panel Discussion | Conf42 DevSecOps 2024" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 29s

CppCon 2024

1. "C++ Exceptions for Smaller Firmware - Khalil Estell - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +9k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 24m 36s

2. "Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming - Daniel Anderson - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 10 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 04m 42s

3. "Leveraging C++20/23 Features for Low Level Interactions - Jeffrey Erickson - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 57m 50s

4. "So You Think You Can Hash - Victor Ciura - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 08s

5. "Reusable Code, Reusable Data Structures - Sebastian Theophil - CppCon 2024" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 09 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 41m 14s

code::dive 2024

1. "Herb Sutter - Peering forward C++’s next decade" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 59s

2. "Bjarne Stroustrup - The Essence of C++" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 46s

3. "Damian Gwiżdż - Optimizing C++ Compilation, From Unit Builds to Low Cost Data Access LCDA" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 23s

4. "Maciej Norberciak - Software architecture in pictures" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 32s

5. "Karolina Malanowska Chmiela - UX of Code Leveraging UX Principles for Better Coding" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 52s

6. "Radosław Szewczyk - Building NLP classificators from grond up C++ and Python binding" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 27m 19s

7. "Mathieu Ropert - Heaps Don't Lie Guidelines for Memory Allocation in C++" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 17s

8. "Jason Turner - Is constexpr Really 0 Runtime Cost" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 30s

9. "Andreas Fertig - Fast and small C++ When efficiency matters" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 50m 09s

10. "Wenjin Yu - Unlocking Performance in C++" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 53m 17s

11. "Hana Dusíková - My favorite data structures" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 56s

12. "Andrzej Krzemieński - The C++ Way" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 15s

13. "Jaroslaw Gnitecki - No code dive, low code dive" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 40s

14. "Zbigniew Skowron - Inside CPUs and GPUs" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 25s

15. "Dawid Dulian - How to enjoy the templates - Introduction to concepts C++20" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 19m 07s

16. "Robert Rosłonek - Cyber attacks on Modern Telecom Networks" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 23s

17. "Andreas Weis - Deciphering C++ Coroutines Mastering Asynchronous Control Flow" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 47m 36s

18. "Maciej Norberciak - Happy developer is a productive developer" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 17m 42s

19. "code::dive 2024 - Opening & Discussion Panel" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 18m 07s

20. "Bartosz Moczulski - Shadow stack, fix memory corruptions immune to stack protector" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 49m 59s

21. "Filipe Mulode - Implementing Large Language Model LLMs Inference in Pure C++" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 36s

22. "Jaroslaw Gorski - From PaaS to SaaS - building automated ordering system on multitenant kubern" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 02s

23. "Phil Nash - Modern C++ Error Handling" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 48m 44s

24. "Michał Prorok - Desing thinking not only for extraverts" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 17m 26s

25. "Patryk Wychowaniec - Kartoffels - Emulating thousands of RISC V CPUs For Fun" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 49s

26. "Nevin Liber - The Many Variants of std variant" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 11s

27. "Jacek Góra - Power of Energy Efficiency" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 16m 12s

28. "Erwin Ong - Leading Digitalization from the Follower’s Perspective" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 15m 07s

29. "Guy Davidson - Portable floating point calculations" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 12s

30. "Rafal Lech - GenAI in Cybersecurity - the Double Edged Sword" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 56s

31. "Erwin Ong - AI Powered Leadership Development" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 17m 41s

32. "code::dive 2024 - Awards & Closing ceremony" ⸱ <100 views ⸱ 11 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 12m 53s

AWS re:Invent 2024

1. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dr. Werner Vogels Keynote" ⸱ +39k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 50m 14s

2. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Keynote with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian" ⸱ +28k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 47m 41s

3. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Partner Keynote with Dr. Ruba Borno" ⸱ +10k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 24m 15s

4. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - [NEW LAUNCH] Practical generative AI using Amazon Nova (AIM398-NEW)" ⸱ +6k views ⸱ 07 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 10s

5. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Get started with Amazon Aurora DSQL (DAT424)" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 02s

6. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dive deep on Amazon S3 (STG302)" ⸱ +5k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 09s

7. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Amazon VPC: Advanced design and what’s new (NET301)" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 00m 29s

8. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - What’s new with Amazon S3 (STG212)" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 55m 38s

9. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Deep dive into Amazon Aurora DSQL and its architecture (DAT427-NEW)" ⸱ +4k views ⸱ 08 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 40s

10. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Modern data patterns for modern data strategies (INV201)" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 00m 35s

11. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Generative AI in action: From prototype to production (AIM276)" ⸱ +3k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 55s

12. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - [NEW LAUNCH] Store tabular data at scale with Amazon S3 Tables (STG367-NEW)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 08 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 52s

13. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Infrastructure as Kubernetes APIs (OPN312)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 07 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 45m 25s

14. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - AWS infrastructure as code: A year in review (DOP201)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 58m 20s

15. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Anatomy of an AWS Region (ARC204)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 11s

16. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Automate your entire Kubernetes cluster with Amazon EKS Auto Mode (KUB204-NEW)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 07 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 36m 12s

17. "AWS re:Invent 2024-Unlocking power of structured data with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases-AIM396-NEW" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 09 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 42m 44s

18. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dive deep into Amazon DynamoDB (DAT406)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 20s

19. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Architectural methods & breakthroughs for innovative apps in the cloud (ARC203)" ⸱ +2k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 03s

20. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Try again: The tools and techniques behind resilient systems (ARC403)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 00s

21. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - [NEW LAUNCH] Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse: Accelerate analytics & AI (ANT354-NEW)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 51m 10s

22. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Deep dive into Amazon Aurora and its innovations (DAT405)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 12s

23. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Dive deep into the AWS Nitro System (CMP301)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 31m 46s

24. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Simplify Kubernetes workloads with Karpenter & Amazon EKS Auto Mode (KUB312)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 37s

25. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Design well-architected networks on AWS (NET202)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 46s

26. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - New tools, no limits: Pushing the envelope in financial services (FSI201)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 41s

27. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Compute innovation for any application, anywhere (CMP215)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 53m 51s

28. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - The power of cloud network innovation (NET201)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 07 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 56m 04s

29. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - AWS databases: The foundation for data-driven and generative AI apps (DAT201)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 02m 54s

30. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Sky: Enhancing sports experiences with automation and generative AI (MAE202)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 44m 11s

31. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - The future of Kubernetes on AWS (KUB201)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 08 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 59m 20s

32. "AWS re:Invent 2024-Transform your data with Oracle Database@AWS, featuring State Street (DAT246-NEW)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 54m 40s

33. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Automating migration and modernization to accelerate transformation (MAM238)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 04s

34. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - How to build scalable platforms with Amazon EKS (KUB301)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 07 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 52m 48s

35. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Netflix's massive multi-account journey: Year two (NFX402)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 08 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 46m 10s

36. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Optimizing ELB traffic distribution for high availability (NET401)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 08s

37. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Observability the open source way (COP324)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 08 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 43m 40s

38. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Building an AI-powered shopping assistant (RCG204)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 08 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 13m 22s

39. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - AWS storage services: The foundation for data-driven innovation (STG209)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 04 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 01m 59s

40. "AWS re:Invent 2024 - Accelerating healthcare & life sciences innovation with generative AI (HLS201)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 03m 56s

41. "DOP220-INT | Reimagining the developer experience at AWS" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 06 Dec 2024 ⸱ 01h 00m 48s

42. "AWS re:Invent 2024 -Simplify cross-VPC resource access with PrivateLink and VPC Lattice (NET218-NEW)" ⸱ +1k views ⸱ 05 Dec 2024 ⸱ 00h 57m 50s

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