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Brilliant article! Can't expect anything better written! Thanks Murat Demirbas (Distributolog) for reading the paper and articulating its intellectual merits -- you do better than us! 😊

I just went to NSDI, a top venue for computer systems research. Change in papers' src country: 2015    2025 USA     76%     45% China   10      42 Other   14      13 China's research investments are bearing fruit, while the US is gutting science funding.

Designing Distributed Systems? Edsger W. Dijkstra nailed the challenge in 1974: Local actions taken on account of local information must accomplish a global objective Still true, 50 years later x.com/DominikTornow/…

It's great to hear from Vaastav Anand today that he is teaching this lovely course at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. Cloud system reliability is such an important topic for anyone who wants to run real stuff in production. Reliability in Modern Cloud Systems! cms.sic.saarland/cldrel_25/

All those papers and awards fade away, but those relationships with students and colleagues stick forever. Work for your students, not for your papers.

USENIX ATC discontinued. usenix.org/blog/usenix-at…

Sad to see the sunset of USENIX Association ATC. It owns some of my favorite systems research like UVM, QEMU, DTrace, ZooKeeper, Raft, not to mention Sendmail, NFS, Kerberos, X, Tcl, etc. It loses its identity in recent years, but is still among the most hacky conferences I truly enjoy.

This's official: DR. Xudong Sun from Siebel School of Computing and Data Science! Brilliant defense; brilliant research; brilliant person! Thank you, Xudong, for what you've been doing in the past 6 years and for making me a much better person, researcher, and advisor!

The argument that "one can have anorexia and still make do in life, so that food may not be important or key to others" is quite irrational. I'm happy for colleagues who can raise funding from other sources like industry. But, not everyone can or should do that. And, industry

Yay! DOCTOR Jinghao Jia from Siebel School of Computing and Data Science ! Truly outstanding work and brilliant person! Thank you, Jinghao, for showing me the characters of a pure OS hacker, builder, and researcher! Such a privilege and I'm so extremely grateful!

This would be a huuuge loss of Siebel School of Computing and Data Science The Grainger College of Engineering ! I'd cry if Adam leaves, but I also will really appreciate anyone who has openings for Adam and Amanda. This is a great great opportunity for any department to build up or significantly boost Systems Security Research!

Excited to discuss this at HotOS today! Great work led by Divyanshu Saxena with colleagues from our LDOS Expedition.

Super excited to attend #HotOS25 in beautiful Banff, Canada! Huge thanks to the HotOS organizers for the travel grant. Looking forward to the discussions and meeting the systems community!

Well said article by Vijay Janapa Reddi on The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia """ You don’t get applied research without basic research. You don’t get a talent pool without a talent pipeline. You don’t get scale without exploration. """

🚀 I'll be launching the Formal Methods Engineering Lab (manchester-fme.github.io) – and I am hiring! If you’re interested in working with me, feel free to reach out.

Upon graduation, I paused to reflect on what my PhD had truly taught me. Was it just how to write papers, respond to brutal reviewer comments, and survive without much sleep? Or did it leave a deeper imprint on me — beyond the metrics and milestones? Turns out, it did. A

None of the fault pattern was new. But, the combination of multiple different (well understood) faults penetrated the defense in depth. How to reason about system/infra reliability in the presence of a collection of concurrent, correlated faults is an interesting problem.

Heartbreaking! 💔 The Weizmann institute - Israel’s leading research institute and one of the top leading scientific research institutions in the world - was badly damaged by Iranian missiles last night. They won’t break us! I’m sure that Oren Schuldiner's Lab will rebuild his lab! ❤️🇮🇱

📢📢 Submit your cool ideas to HotNets. This year’s HotNets will be hosted at College Park, MD on Nov. I will be the general chair. Brighten Godfrey and Barath Raghavan are PC chairs. The deadline is 7/1 AoE: conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2025/ Submit your ideas and come visit us!