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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 23/07/2026

Hello friends! Hope you're all enjoying the summer. The @southbaysystems.xyz Coffee Chat is back! If you're interested in software internals such as compilers, databases, OS, and more, come grab a coffee and hang out. Thursday, July 30 at 5 PM Courtyard outside Philz Coffee in downtown Sunnyvale

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South Bay Systems: July Coffee Chat · Luma

Hope you're all enjoying the summer! The South Bay Systems Coffee Chat is back. If you're working on, or simply interested in, software internals such as…

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 10/06/2026

South Bay Systems returns for its June meetup on June 26th! We'll have two speakers: Yao Yue will talk about her experiences from working on Caching at Twitter and developing Pelikan, and Eric Liang will talk about Databrick's history-based data clustering feature. Register at luma.com/ogvfeacv

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South Bay Systems: Caching & Clustering · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you two wonderful talks: Yao Yue will speak about her experiences working on Caching…

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 13/05/2026

Our next @southbaysystems.xyz meetup is on May 26! We're covering one of my favorite topics: databases, and how to use them to make better architectural decisions and build reliable systems. Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of our hosts at PingCAP. Register here: luma.com/3j9twotu?tk=...

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South Bay Systems: Queues & RDBMS Extensibility · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you two wonderful talks: Himank Chaudhary will explain how the queuing infrastructure in…

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

And the recording from this talk is now available! youtu.be/BG1zqnTGpyc Thanks again to @cliffclick.bsky.social for the great talk, and LinkedIn for the great venue!

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South Bay Systems: A Simple Guide to Sea of Nodes

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you're an RSS user and a South Bay Systems attendee, I've added an RSS feed for the events at southbaysystems.xyz/...

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 17/03/2026

Our next South Bay Systems meetup will be on March 31. We've got two awesome deep-dive talks from Sugu Sougoumarane (Consensus and Multigres) and @stuhood.sh (Full-Text Search and ParadeDB). Food and beverages will be provided, courtesy of our host, Snowflake. Register here: luma.com/2g3exvjw

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South Bay Systems: Consensus & Full Text Search · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you two wonderful talks: Sugu Sougoumarane will be speaking about deconstructing consensus…

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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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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 21/11/2025

Yesterday was our final @southbaysystems.xyz talk event of 2025 (what a year!). Huge thanks to @julianhyde.bsky.social and Yuanyuan for their awesome talks! A big shout-out to our amazing host, @startreedata.bsky.social, for the venue and food!

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 07/11/2025

Our next event is on November 19th at StarTree’s office in downtown Mountain View. Come hear about Morel from Julian Hyde and and Query Optimization as a Service from Yuanyuan Tian! luma.com/xygolo9c

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South Bay Systems: Morel / Query Optimization as a Service · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you two wonderful talks: Julian Hyde will be speaking about Morel, a new functional…

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 28/10/2025

We had a great turnout for great talks in a beautiful office!

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 13/10/2025

South Bay Systems returns on October 27th at Adobe in downtown San Jose. We have an Analytics-on-Object-Storage double feature this time starring two different Apache projects: Apache Pinot and Apache Doris. (Talk descriptions below.) Register now! luma.com/9o6bahgc

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South Bay Systems: Apache Pinot on Object Storage / Variants in Apache Doris · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time, we'll have a double feature! First we'll have Songqiao Su and Raghav Yadav talking about…

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 07/10/2025

There was an accident with the recording where audio wasn't captured, so instead we can offer a recording from one of Jakob's practice runs on twitch: www.twitch.tv/videos/25845...

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South Bay Systems Keynote dry run - WebAssembly is Cool (finally!) - thecodedrift on Twitch

thecodedrift went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Software and Game Development VOD now.

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 03/10/2025

Had a fun time at the South Bay Systems meetup last night. Thanks @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting! @codedrift.social gave a great talk on WebAssembly: what it is (and isn't), how it connects to WASI, and promising projects. He cuts through a lot of the hype vs. reality. Recording coming soon.

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 18/09/2025

The South Bay Systems talk series is back on Oct 2nd. @codedrift.social will talk about the history and novel use cases of WebAssembly. Perfect timing too: Wasm 3.0 just released, and it is turning 10 this year. Huge thanks to @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting! Register here: luma.com/p3mibf27

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South Bay Systems: WebAssembly Is Cool! (finally!) · Luma

Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we'll have Jakob Heuser delivering an expanded version of his QCon 2024 lightning talk "WebAssembly…

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 21/08/2025

☕️ Friends in the Bay Area: August coffee chat time! We're hosting the @southbaysystems.xyz August Coffee Chat next week. Come hang out with other systems folks for some casual conversations. 🗓 Thursday, August 28, 5–6 pm 📍 Courtyard outside Philz Sunnyvale 🔗 lu.ma/97e10ef4 Hope to see you there!

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South Bay Systems: August Coffee Chat · Luma

If you’re working on or are interested in anything in the space of software internals (compilers/databases/OSs/etc.), come grab a cup of coffee and hang out!…

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 07/08/2025

We had our biggest @southbaysystems.xyz meetup yet last night! Thanks to everyone who came, and thanks to Databricks for hosting! @andypavlo.bsky.social discussed the 50-year history of database tuning, applying AI/ML to the problem, and the future of auto-tuning (agentic reasoning, of course).

Andy Pavlo presenting the slide "Agentic Reasoning for Databases"

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Attention, South Bay folk! We have The Databaseologist, @andypavlo.bsky.social, giving a talk in the bay on August 6th. Come join us for a great time in hearing: ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! The Future of Automated Database Tuning Register now! lu.ma/ha0dc4nj

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South Bay Systems: ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! The Future of Automated Database Tuning · Luma

We're excited to feature Andy Pavlo, illustrious database professor at CMU, to talk about database tuning. This meetup's venue, food and drinks, are generously…

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 23/07/2025

Packed room at the South Bay Systems Meetup last night! Thank you to everyone who joined us: engineers, students, tech leaders, and curious minds alike. It was incredible to see such a vibrant and engaged crowd come together around systems and infrastructure. Slides are posted: southbaysystems.xyz

Jacopo Tagliabue is presenting a live demo of Bauplan in front of a crowd.

Qian Li is introducing South Bay Systems to the audience.

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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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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 28/05/2025

☀️Summer is heating up, and so is systems chat! We're hosting a @southbaysystems.xyz June Coffee Chat next week. Come hang out with other systems folks for some casual conversations. 🗓 Thursday, June 5, 5–6 pm 📍 Courtyard outside Philz Sunnyvale Register here: lu.ma/67yxr1pn Hope to see you there!

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South Bay Systems: June Coffee Chat · Luma

If you’re working on or are interested in anything in the space of software internals (compilers/databases/OSs/etc.), come grab a cup of coffee and hang out! …

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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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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 17/03/2025

The recording from our inaugural talk, "It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter" by John Ousterhout, is now live! Thanks again to Yugabyte for the great venue, and the recording setup! youtu.be/Nh-WZZi-Zic

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It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 12/03/2025

Thank you all for joining us at the first South Bay Systems meetup! It was wonderful to meet everyone, and a special thanks to @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting the event. If you missed it, we recorded the talk and will share the link soon @southbaysystems.xyz Recap and call for talks 🧵

A photo showing the attendees listening to John Ousterhout's talk.

Call for talks slide. Engineering, not product pitch
Any area:
Networking
Systems at scale
Operating systems
Databases
Compilers
Security
Hardware
Verification and testing
Etc…

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South Bay Systems @southbaysystems.xyz · 20/02/2025

South Bay Systems will be having its first talk! Come and see "It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter" by John Ousterhout. It will be on March 11th, 6pm to 8pm, generously hosted by @yugabytedb.bsky.social at their Sunnyvale office. Register at lu.ma/vcwd7npw

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South Bay Systems Meetup: Replace TCP in the Datacenter · Luma

Welcome to our first South Bay Systems meetup! We're excited to have John Ousterhout, professor of computer science at Stanford University, present It's Time…

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Qian Li @qianli.dev · 22/01/2025

Hello! We are organizing our first South Bay Systems Coffee Chat next week. Register here: lu.ma/2f8y3fsj (w/ @alexmillerdb.bsky.social @yingjunwu.bsky.social) We're planning some talks in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the official account @southbaysystems.xyz 🦋 Stay tuned 👀

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South Bay Systems Coffee Chat · Luma

If working on or are interested in anything in the space of software internals (compilers/databases/OSs/etc.), come grab a cup of coffee and hang out! If…

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