The Language of the System - Rich Hickey

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a key Hickey talk on system design that changes how people think about distributed state and interfaces.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ClojureTV

Topic

software systems design

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• I came across this after watching Rich Hickey's The Language of The System [1], and it has really changed the way I look at distributed persistent storage. Any thoughts? [1] [VIDEO]

• Simple Made Easy ( [LINK] ) The Language of the System ( [VIDEO] ) The Value of Values ( [LINK] ) All by Rich Hickey (Clojure creator) - strongest programming speaker I've found to date.

• This paper describes ideas around #2: [LINK] But yes, your database stores the status of a message. At this point you could drop every single message on your queue and have enough information to resend them. Each message could have its own resend (SLA) semantics. …