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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Aug 13

very cool idea!

Justin @jaffray.bsky.social · Aug 11

Today’s NULL BITMAP is a very special one—I have been doing NULL BITMAP every week for two years, and to celebrate, this week I got a collection of friends to put together a printable zine of articles. I hope you enjoy it! buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · Jul 8

The South Bay Systems meetup is back on July 22!

We're excited to welcome Jacopo Tagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa).

🔗 lu.ma/5zcpbae9

South Bay Systems: Speedrunning the Lakehouse · Luma

The South Bay Systems meetup is back! This time we’re excited to have Jacopo Tagliabue, co-founder and CTO of Bauplan, to dive into Speedrunning the Lakehouse:…

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · May 7

Great talks last night at SF Systems Meetup. Thanks to the speakers and to OpenAI for hosting!

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Shadaj Laddad @shadaj.me · Apr 21

Join us for the next SF Systems Meetup, generously hosted by OpenAI! We have an exciting pair of talks on fuzz testing and WebAssembly, you won't want to miss them: lu.ma/ltsl9g50

SF Systems May Meetup: Intelligent Fuzzers and WASM · Luma

The SF Systems Meetup is back for our second event of the year! There's no strict theme for this event, but we have two exciting headlining talks: Brian…

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · Apr 15

The next South Bay Systems meetup is live! 🦆

We're excited to invite @hannes.muehleisen.org co-founder of @duckdb.org for a talk on "Wrangling Data with DuckDB".

🗓️ April 23 at 6pm
📌 Hosted by Databricks at their Mountain View office.
Register at lu.ma/ri5kt4vt

Follow us: @southbaysystems.xyz

South Bay Systems Meetup: Wrangling Data with DuckDB · Luma

The South Bay Systems meetup is back! This time we’re excited to have Hannes Mühleisen, co-founder of DuckDB, to dive into Wrangling Data with DuckDB. This…

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Apr 8

Upcoming events on local-first:

• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks

• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)

Local-First Conf 2025

Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 27th - 28th May 2025.

www.localfirstconf.com

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · Mar 20

The lineup for the 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data is now up. The programme looks excellent, sad not to be able to attend. @abeldantas.bsky.social will be presenting our paper on VR collaboration. papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/program...

Program

The 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data

papoc-workshop.github.io

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Chris K Wensel @chris.wensel.net · Feb 13

SF Systems Meetup signup is live. Hope to see you there!

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SF Systems Meetup: Correctness and Security for Distributed Systems · Luma

The SF Systems Meetup is back for the new year! This meetup, our theme is correctness and security. It's easy to write a distributed protocol, but very hard to…

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Feb 5

Excited to share our ICDT 2025 paper on a theoretical framework to connect CRDTs and the CALM Theorem! We formalize the intuitions given in the Keep CALM and CRDT On work about the gap between CRDT guarantees and monotonic queries. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00222

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Jan 31

fun to see hydro.run hit the top of Hackernews today. Happy to answer folks questions about Hydro in the thread there!

Hydro - Build for Every Scale

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · Jan 11

Still time to write a short paper for PaPoC.

Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Dec 6

The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html

Call for Papers

The 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data

papoc-workshop.github.io

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Dec 19

Today is the last day to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam! The best conference in systems with an awesome lineup this year! cidrdb.org/cidr2025/pro...

CIDR 2025 – Program

CIDR 2024 Program Information

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Dec 18

Thanks for giving the talk! See you at the next meetup!

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · Dec 18

Better late than never 😂 Happy to share a recap of my SF Systems talk from last month. I've put together a summary of the session along with some great Q&A moments: www.dbos.dev/blog/sf-syst...

Thanks to the organizers and everyone who showed up—it was an amazing experience!
#dataBS #serverless

SF Systems Meetup 2024 - Transactions and Serverless are Made for Each Other | DBOS

www.dbos.dev

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Dec 16

Fun NULL BITMAP today talking associativity. A topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

Why are Things Associative?

The big three algebraic properties that show up in the distributed systems literature are associative, commutativity, and idempotency (EYE-dem-po-ten-see)....

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · Dec 6

The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html

Call for Papers

The 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data

papoc-workshop.github.io

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Dec 10

Happy OSDI submission day to everyone! Wish me luck remembering to spell things the British way to match style with @nacrooks.bsky.social

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Dec 8

The Anna KVS suggests that CRDTs have value in the datacenter setting for performance reasons. dsf.berkeley.edu/jmh/papers/a... . Not aware of a production system using this design though.

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · Dec 6

The latest paper from the #1 CMU-DB PhD student @samarchdb.bsky.social is wild compilation magic! He automatically makes UDFs run 300x faster on SQL Server and 1.3x faster on DuckDB.
Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR...
Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Dec 5

The next SF Systems Club Coffee Chat is at 10am tomorrow in Salesforce Park! lu.ma/qereq67o

SF Systems Club: December Coffee Chat · Luma

Join us for a casual hour of chatting about computer systems! Bring your morning beverage of choice, if you so please. Rain location to be provided later if…

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Shadaj Laddad @shadaj.me · Dec 3

Thrilled to share that our paper “Flo: A Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing” (with @mpmilano.bsky.social, Alvin Cheung, and @joehellerstein.bsky.social) will appear at POPL 2025! Check out the preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2411.08274, and read on for more!

Flo: a Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing

Streaming systems are present throughout modern applications, processing continuous data in real-time. Existing streaming languages have a variety of semantic models and guarantees that are often inco...

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Sam Kumar @samkumar.bsky.social · Nov 28

This admissions cycle, I am recruiting PhD students to join my research group! If you're interested in systems or security (including intersections with cryptography, datacenters, AI, etc.), then please apply to UCLA Computer Science and list me on your application as a potential faculty advisor.

Royce Hall, UCLA.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royce_Hall_Facade.JPG [Josh Lee, CC BY-SA 3.0]

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · Nov 23

One of the highest compliments on scientific work is: “certainly someone must have done that earlier”

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Nov 22

Such a good paper. I think I’ve cited it in every project I’ve worked on since it came out.

Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social · Nov 20

[new blog post]
DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages
muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2024/11/dbsp...

DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages

Incremental computation represents a transformative (!) approach to data processing. Instead of recomputing everything when your input chang...

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · Jul 31

Where are lattices in the Gartner Hype Cycle these days? Have people realized the distributed systems lattices have nothing to do with the cryptography lattices yet? Are they disillusioned?