Editors:
Tianyin Xu, Akshitha Sriraman, Baris Kasikci, and Dong Du
Evaluating the New ASPLOS Review Process
TL;DR The ASPLOS Steering Committee (SC) is soliciting feedback on the new review process introduced with ASPLOS 2023. The SC welcomes input on the impact of the new process and changes being contemplated for ASPLOS 2026. Please read this whole post then complete this online survey by Nov 8, 2024. Growing Pains In 2021, the ASPLOS SC solicited input on
The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman
I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in terms of misogyny as technical excellence (I’ve garnered quite a CV in both), and how I have struggled
A discussion on how to build a better ChinaSys workshop
Background: The ChinaSys community just held a workshop in June 2024 in Hangzhou. The workshop added a Best Paper session (3 papers) and a Lightning Talk + Poster interactive session (54 papers), enabling participants to engage in extensive discussions on various aspects of systems such as architecture, OS, cloud computing, storage systems, machine learning systems,
Thinking outside the box: My PhD Odyssey From Single-Server Architecture to Distributed Datastores (Part 2)
Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS award winners to write about backstories behind the award-winning work. In this article, Antonis Katsarakis shares the journey of his PhD dissertation–“Invalidation-Based Protocols for Replicated Datastores”–which received the Honorable Mention of the 2023 Roger Needham PhD Award. Antonis is now a Principal Researcher at Huawei Research. He received his PhD from the
Thinking outside the box: My PhD Odyssey From Single-Server Architecture to Distributed Datastores (Part 1)
Editor’s notes: We invite SIGOPS award winners to write about backstories behind the award-winning work. In this article, Antonis Katsarakis shares the journey of his PhD dissertation–“Invalidation-Based Protocols for Replicated Datastores”–which received the Honorable Mention of the 2023 Roger Needham PhD Award. Antonis is now a Principal Researcher at Huawei Research. He received his PhD from the
The journey of real-life industry work behind an OSDI paper — global capacity management for millions of servers
As a new hire at Meta (formerly Facebook) in 2020, I was unbelievably fortunate to be entrusted with the question of how we should manage the company’s global server capacity at the scale of millions of servers. I was entrusted with this work despite having zero background in capacity management, and against all odds, not