If you’re in Athens for EuroSys 2023 checkout PAPOC, my favourite workshop for all things consistency. Cjen1 will be talking about a hot new take on 2PC and David Chu will taking about programmatically scaling BFT protocols. Definitely worth a watch!

On Valentine’s day, all you need is pip 😍

Whether you found your match in life or not, Valentine matches your datasets.

Feb. 14th anniversary-release (v0.2.0) includes:
— faster batch-matching
— more string similarity functions
— redesigned metrics
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github.com/delftdata/vale…

Interested in a PhD position in knowledge graphs and graph technologies in the beautiful city of Vienna?
I'm offering a 4-year full-time (40h) position at TU Wien.

Application link (deadline February 1st, 2024):
jobs.tuwien.ac.at/Job/220960

TU Wien
#knowledgeGraphs
#graphDatabase

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Searching for a PhD student for my VIDI grant. The team is building a programming model & self-driving streaming dataflow engine for Transactional Stateful Functions.

Apply here by 10th February (and drop me an email): tudelft.nl/over-tu-delft/…

The BIFOLD doctoral school has a new call for 10 PhD student positions (application deadline: Jan 26, 2024):

jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posting…
bifold.berlin/education/thes…

I am looking for postdocs who want to work with us on fundamentally pushing the boundary of scientific knowledge when it comes to building Networked Systems for Machine Learning. #recruiting #ercfunded #postdoc #postdoc position #postdoc jobs European Research Council (ERC)

kth.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

'How to Make Distributed Programming Safer, Simpler, and more Scalable' -- slides from my keynote at the Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory (NWPT 2023): speakerdeck.com/phaller/how-to…

Took >3 years with Marios Fragkoulis, Paris Carbone & Vasia Kalavri to write a survey on the evolution of streaming systems in the last 20 years (@VLDBconf J.).

Looking for a single point of reference for all things streaming systems research? It’s here:
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚀Check out the latest tutorial on the OmniPaxos playground and dashboard! It runs on docker with an interactive dashboard in the terminal where you can input different network failures and KV-operations to see how OmniPaxos behaves.

More info + video 🧑‍💻: omnipaxos.com/docs/playgroun…

OmniPaxos Playground and Dashboard are live! 🔥

Harald's MetaCoordination session is a hidden gem at #SOSP23 ! Don't miss the chance to visit the poster and challenge your understanding of what is possible with distributed systems.

☄️Portals framework (preview) is now live on Github!
github.com/portals-projec…

🚀Happening now at VLDB 2025 🇬🇧! Worldwide reveal demo of Portals, the decentralized programming heaven framework we have been cooking with Jonas Spenger Philipp Haller. It’s Flink on steroids 🌊

Very proud of Sonia Horchidan for winning the Best PhD Workshop Paper award at VLDB 2025 🇬🇧 for the ground-breaking work on the ORB DB optimiser. If you are at the conference go ahead and reach her to learn more!

CS TU Delft is expanding: we are looking for Asst. or Assoc. Professors in (Trustworthy) AI, Distributed/Data Systems, and everything in between.

If you are interested and have questions, drop me an email!

tudelft.nl/ewi/over-de-fa…

You can also find out more on August 28th at this year's VLDB 2025 🇬🇧 PhD Workshop, where I will delve deeper into the vision of Orb DB and its innovative query optimization strategy. Make sure to catch my presentation!

🎇 We have another opening for a PhD student position in the BIFOLD agility project 'LungCAIRE' with Charité on multimodal data representations for lung cancer relapse prediction and related use cases:
jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-posting…
(application deadline: Sep 08, 2023)

'Building distributed #RocksDB with OmniPaxos in 8 minutes'

TIL about #OmniPaxos , acting here as a distributed database changelog. Super-interesting write-up, by Harald Ng 👍.

omnipaxos.com/blog/building-…

Omnipaxos boosts resilience but also offers unprecedented usability. Here is an amazing mini tutorial by Harald Ng on how to make rocksdb distributed in 8min!