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75% of its videos are worth your time. The useful part usually starts at 5:49. The channel's score is the median of its measured videos: how much of the runtime carries substance.70+Worth it40–69Worth skimming<40Skip
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Building resilient systems with Sam Newman
Sam Newman's three rules of distributed systems, idempotency keys vs fingerprints and fail-open vs fail-closed are the payoff; ~25% is career stories and sponsor reads.
What this channel is like
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Filler, typical The median share of runtime with nothing new in it: intros, repeats, ads.
36%
Title honesty How well a video's title matches what it delivers. Median, out of 100.
84/100
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Yes — 75% of its measured videos are worth your time. Start with the video above.
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Median title honesty across those videos is 84 out of 100 — how closely a title matches what the video actually delivers.
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The Gistil Score is our own independent measurement of how much of a video's runtime carries substance. It is not a YouTube metric, not a public rating, and not the video's rating on YouTube. Gistil does not alter, download or cut any part of a video — the videos stay on YouTube and play there. Not affiliated with YouTube or Google. Last measured 16 October 2026.