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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · 27d

There are only 8 days to October, and the NINeS deadline! Submit your finest ideas.

Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Sep 16

I was scared when I saw the title of the post. It seems easy to misunderstand the point. But also I am super excited to see how eBPF evolves to support more applications with better performance and more flexibility

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · Sep 16

We are getting close to the NINeS deadline. October 1 is only two-weeks away, and we are very excited to read your submissions. See our website (https://nines-conference.org) to learn more about the conference's philosophy.

https://nines-conference.org)

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Sep 15

For me, this is a new angle to look at the problem. Thanks for sharing it. I wish you the best.

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Bill Mulligan 🐝🐝🐝 @breakawaybilly.bsky.social · Sep 15

Last week to apply for the first eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship program!

If the last decade was about building the technology, this is about building the community that will take eBPF forward. Open until Friday!

eBPF Foundation Announces Community & Advocacy Fellowship Program – eBPF

The eBPF Foundation is excited to announce a new “eBPF Foundation Community & Advocacy Fellowship” to reward and support innovative ideas that will grow the eBPF ecosystem for an increasingly global…

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Sep 13

Last Thursday I had an awesome opportunity to share my work about eBPF CPU cache efficiency on the ACM student competition stage along six other awesome presentations. I would like to thank the organizers and people who attended session and listened to the talks.
youtu.be/HltirZfpfy8?...

SIGCOMM'25: Student Research Competition

YouTube video by ACM SIGCOMM

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Nate Foster @natefoster.bsky.social · Sep 7

NINeS @nines-conference.org is the first conference specifically formulated to combat stale ideas, reviewer fatigue, and shallow program committees. By stimulating the community's collective creative pathways, NINeS will help restore energy, imagination, and genuine dialogue in networking research.

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Sep 2

I see... I looked up gitpod after watching the video and was confused by their website

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · Sep 2

We are getting closer to the NINeS deadline (October 1).

Watch Scott talk about why you should submit your work to NINeS!

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Aug 31

Randomly saw this video from @lichess.org on their open source contribution workflow and tooling. It's next level of awesomeness :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=imuo...

Lichess Development: A Quickstart to Contributing

YouTube video by Lichess

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Paul Chaignon @pchaigno.bsky.social · Aug 11

The list of papers accepted at the 3rd #eBPF workshop has been published! conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025...

Screenshot of the eBPF workshop program, showing Session 3 ("Time for Better and Safer Programming") and the beginning of Session 4 ("Profiling meets Machine Learning and Privacy").

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Aug 8

I appreciate people working on eBPF internals and writing blogs about it. It's super nice

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · Jul 8

Next up @apanda
talks about Why Nines? No cats this time because they were all busy working on their NINeS papers.

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 28

Congratulations Gianni

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 28

I'm not sure if NLP is relevant, or not. But what I remember from python's doctest is that it checks some unittest embeded into docstring.

It would be nice if there was a test that flagged undocumented assumptions, abstraction, control flow, ...

Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 27

With advancements in NLP maybe software eng. can finally write test cases for their documentations so that poorly documented part of the code does not pass the test.

[thought crosses his mind while suffers to understand what's going on]

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 23

Cloudlab has been an enabler for me. Eternally grateful for its existence

Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · Jul 23

My research group at the University of Utah runs CloudLab. I agree: CloudLab is the type of thing that needs to be in the world more! Thank you to the "Fork Around and Find Out" team for mentioning the work we do.

Learn more about CloudLab: cloudlab.us

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 23

:/ ... there are still lots to do

Year Progress Bot @yearprogress.bsky.social · Jul 23

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Eric Eide @ericeide.bsky.social · Jul 22

📢 The Journal of Systems Research (JSys) is looking for senior graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers to serve on its Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB). #OpenScience

🧑‍🔬 To learn more/nominate yourself for the AEB, visit forms.gle/PJzS81AhN2TA...

Self-Nomination for JSys Artifact Evaluation Board

The Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB) for the Journal of Systems Research (JSys) assists with the review of two kinds of submissions. "Tool/benchmark papers" present new, open-source tools and benchmark...

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · Jul 22

OSDI'26 is adding a new Operational Systems track and aiming for a higher acceptance rate: usenix.org/conference/o...
I hope this will help expand the conference's scope and include more papers.

OSDI '26 Preliminary Call for Papers

OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The symp...

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Michio Honda @michioh.bsky.social · Jul 15

Petition to keep ATC at SIGOPS!
tinyurl.com/atc-petition

Save ATC petition

Save ATC: A petition to SIGOPS to adopt the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) and retain its steering committee Dear SIGOPS Officers, We, the undersigned members of the systems research communi...

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Gianni Antichi @gianniantichi.bsky.social · Jul 11

Here is a good reason to submit your paper to CoNEXT 2026: I will be the PC chair :)

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 8

who should you talk to if you want a new eBPF hook in the kernel? Is there a documention for adding one? The macro magic and random verifier details poping out of no where is disheartening

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Farbod @fshahinfar1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Imagining the troubles in running each of the kernel bypass systems compated in the paper, I say it's a heroic job

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New Ideas in Networked Systems @nines-conference.org · Jun 30

📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems! Submissions due Oct 1; event on Feb 10. Join us! nines-conference.org #NINeS

NINeS 2026

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