Lessons from Five Years of Artifact Evaluation at EuroSys

Reproducibility is a cornerstone of scientific progress, yet in systems research, it remains a persistent challenge. Over the past five years, the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process at the European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) has aimed to address this challenge head-on. In this blog post, we reflect on what we have learned from organizing AE … Read more

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: APSys 2024

Kyoto, Japan on September 4-5, 2024 URL: https://apsys2024.github.io/ Registration: https://apsys2024.github.io/registration/ Building on the success of its predecessors, the 15th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2024) will continue to be a lively forum for systems researchers and practitioners across the world to meet, interact, and collaborate with their peers from the Asia/Pacific region. APSys 2024 … Read more

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 … Read more