That’s totally a fair point. I could have given a more concrete talk about how I’ve done these things in real systems (and the original version of this talk, presented internally to my company, had more real details and spoke very candidly about mistakes that I’d made along the way). Here I wanted to give more of a “here’s how you might want to structure your thinking, along with some basic design principles” kind of talk - I wish I’d had time to give more detail!

It's a bit dated but "Scalable Internet Architectures" by Theo Schlossnagle is still good (IMHO)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/853963.Scalable_Internet...

I see he did a talk on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WuT2rdLK5A

I think of high level talks like these emphasizing timelessness. Technologies change over time and with in different contexts. But the theory remains as a way of thinking abstractly about a problem.

Besides, at the level of jobs I apply to now, interviewers care much more about my thought process than specific technologies.

I think it is only available through Safari