Retries. Often touted as a simply fix for reliability in the presence of failure－However, retries are incredibly difficult to get right. This paper is a fantastic discussion of the complex world of retries

Now Tianyu Li tells us that HTAP *isn’t* the solution we’ve been looking for

What goes around comes around … and around … by Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social)

Phil Eaton Maybe you've read this before, but I like this paper that compares popular lakehouse storage systems: delta lake, hudi, and iceberg: cidrdb.org/cidr2023/paper… You can find the source code of their benchmarks: github.com/lhbench/lhbench

Thought I'd share a project i'm tinkering on github.com/ClusterlessHQ/…... it's a cli for finding emerging patterns. think of it as a way to diff one or more subsets of data in a dataset. Or, what itemsets are showing more frequently in an outlier set than are in an inlier set.

Seems do be a large migration of data twitter to bsky in progress.

Peter Kraft Paper link: tangchq74.github.io/FBDetect-SOSP2…

RIP Prof. John D. Little. He of Little law; the most ubiquitous name in computer performance analysis (even though he knew nothing about computer systems) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Litt…

we keep on cooking Elastic

Super excited to announce the November SF Systems Meetup, featuring talks from Google Systems Research and DBOS! Hope to see you there, sign up at lu.ma/lhuuiur5. We have a lot of capacity this time, thanks to our hosts Chroma! See sfsystemsclub.com for more!

SF Systems Group is merging with SF Systems Club 🥳 Chroma is hosting the November meetup with talks from @alexkrentsel and Qian Li Hope to see you there lu.ma/lhuuiur5

So awesome to be joining forces! The systems community in SF is SO BACK

those talks and 244 registered, damn

This vision paper builds on evaluations from the ATC '21 paper (usenix.org/system/files/a…). Fun fact: John was looking for an internship at cloud vendors to experiment with Homa replacing TCP 😉 John's students developed the original Homa protocol, and John has now re-implemented

We still have room!!

Next up is Qian Li telling us how Databases and Serverless are made for each other! #SFSystemsMeetup

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

📣 Happy to share a recap of my SF Systems talk (Title: "Databases and Serverless are Made for Each Other")! I've put together a summary of the session along with some great Q&A moments. It was based on the CACM paper that Peter Kraft and I recently published. Huge thanks

The Connectivity-Inequity Effect Simple statement: Inequity is a natural consequence of high interconnectivity. More specific statement: 1/6

Am I the only one thinking it’s time to explore the connections between DB and PL? Maybe a coffee group.