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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I hope you're all getting your CIDR 2027 submissions ready. Submission deadline is August 4th!

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Looking to learn about UX design. Any intro book or course recs?

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 08/01/2026

This is a must-read annual review on database systems. 👀

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 05/01/2026

Our next event will be on January 21st, featuring speakers from (the just-finishing) CIDR! Come to Databricks to hear about: * DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU * Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM * NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau luma.com/8a54z94d

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South Bay Systems: Innovative Data Systems Research · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you three wonderful talks from authors at the just-finishing Conference in Innovative Data…

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

If you're going to be at CIDR this month and want to grab coffee hmu!

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Anyone have recs for good Discord communities about AI coding?

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The program is up for CIDR 2026. We have two exciting keynotes planned! Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pro...

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CIDR 2026 – Program

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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Do you like databases? Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them? Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases? If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

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2025 in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo

Webcast Dec 10: DBMS researchers Mike Stonebraker (MIT / DBOS) and Andy Pavlo (CMU) discuss which data and CS trends are heating up or cooling down heading into 2026.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

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CIDR 2026 - Registration

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Its PhD application season. Here are a few very cool new professors from my lab who you should apply to work with! Sam Kumar: UCLA Systems+Security Mae Milano: Princeton PL+Systems Stephanie Wang: UW Systems Emma Dauterman: Stanford Systems+Security Dixin Tang: UT Austin Data

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Registration is now open for CIDR 2026 from January 18th-21st in Santa Cruz! Hope to see you all there! cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

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CIDR 2026 - Registration

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The CIDR 2026 Test of Time award goes to the 2007 paper "Database Cracking" by Idreos, Kersten, and Manegold. This line from their intro definitely held up well in the age of cloud + ML "A database system should be able to handle huge sets of data and self-organize according to the environment"

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

The accepted papers for CIDR 2026 are up! I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control" cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...

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CIDR 2026 - Accepted Papers

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 08/07/2025

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

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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 · 07/05/2025

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 · 21/04/2025

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

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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 · 15/04/2025

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

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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 · 08/04/2025

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)

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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.

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

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...

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Program

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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 · 31/01/2025

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

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Hydro - Build for Every Scale

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Still time to write a short paper for PaPoC.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

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...

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CIDR 2025 – Program

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 18/12/2024

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

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

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 06/12/2024

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

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Call for Papers

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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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Andy Pavlo @andypavlo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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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GitHub - SamArch27/PRISM: Strategically Deconstruct UDFs with PRISM for Faster Query Plans

Strategically Deconstruct UDFs with PRISM for Faster Query Plans - SamArch27/PRISM

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Shadaj Laddad @shadaj.me · 03/12/2024

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!

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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 · 28/11/2024

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.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 23/11/2024

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 · 22/11/2024

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

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

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?

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 31/07/2023

Waiting for all caps keywords in programming languages to come back into fashion. Fashion is cyclical my dudes.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 29/07/2023

That feeling the day after submitting when you open your laptop to the 50 tabs of papers you were citing and get to just close them all😌

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 28/07/2023

Even if all the experiments supporting the relational model turn out to be falsified, I still stand by it.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 27/07/2023

Can we please just smoosh Theory A and Theory B back together?

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 26/07/2023

The marketing team really dropped the ball when they gave this very cool branch decision theory the name “management science”.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 21/07/2023

Rust: something that systems, security, and PL folks finally agree on.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 18/07/2023

“The Original Sin in the theory of polyhedra goes back to Euclid, and through Kepler, Poinsot, Cauchy and many others ... at each stage ... the writers failed to define what are the polyhedra". - Branko Grunbaum

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 17/07/2023

Folks are really sleeping on survey articles. Shout out to Foundations and Trends.

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

Is the recent rise of GPUs the liberation from the Von Neumann architecture Backus prophesied in ‘59?

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

Operations Research is so cool! Seems under-appreciated in many branches of CS. What a poor Decision ;)

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 15/07/2023

Love this Terry Tao article on finding appropriately hard tasks for your energy levels. Clearly we need more low-energy research tasks. Research TikToks are a start, but I also want “The Real Postdocs of Palo Alto” or “Keeping Up With the CAP Theorem.” bit.ly/44N24A8

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On time management

Prodded by several comments, I have finally decided to write up some my thoughts on time management here. I actually have been drafting something about this subject for a while, but I soon realise��...

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Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

Who knew finding people to follow was such hard work

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