Editors:
Tianyin Xu, Akshitha Sriraman, Baris Kasikci, and Dong Du
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
Lessons Learned from Chairing the Artifact Evaluation at SOSP 2023
In early 2023, we received an invitation from the SOSP PC chairs to serve as Artifact Evaluation Co-chairs for SOSP 2023. This was an incredibly exciting opportunity for all of us. As junior members in the systems community, being able to take on a leadership role at our flagship conference is an honor and a