Noteworthy

Thinking outside the box: My PhD Odyssey From Single-Server Architecture to Distributed Datastores (Part 1)

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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 … Read more

The journey of real-life industry work behind an OSDI paper — global capacity management for millions of servers

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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

SOSP is going annual

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The SOSP Steering Committee has decided to experiment with moving SOSP to an annual cadence. Care has been taken in the consideration of this change to schedule the two annual venues so that submission deadlines, reviewing periods, and conferences do not conflict.