I'm D&I Chair for SoCC'21. We're planning SoCC(Nov 1-4) to be hybrid: 3 days virtual+in-person(Seattle, limited attendees), 4th day all virtual. For an inclusive conference, asking this to the community: With us taking COVID19 precautions, will you be willing to attend in person?

Hello folks! BIG NEWS!! ACM SoCC 2021 registration site is now open. You can register at whova.com/portal/registr…. We have both in-person categories and a virtual option. If you are among first 50 in-person registrants, you can get discount by using the code "early_bird".

sigmod.org/2022-sigmod-ji… ACM SIGMOD is pleased to present the 2022 SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award to Chenggang Wu and recognize Kexin Rong, and Pingcheng Ruan for Honorable Mention.

"The 2022 ACM SIGMOD Test-of-Time Award goes to “NoDB: Efficient Query Execution on Raw Data Files” by Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica, Miguel Branco, Stratos Idreos, and Anastasia Ailamaki." (sigmod.org/2022-sigmod-aw…) Congratulations!!!!!

For SIGMOD22, we wrote a paper about how we reinvented Amazon Redshift continuing to address the needs of our customers. amazon.science/publications/a… #amazon #redshift #reinvented #sigmod22

I found a really simple way to explain how to embed Consensus inside a DAG (Direct Acyclic Graph), which at the same time, is highly efficient. A simple and efficient DAG-based BFT Consensus embedding -- Fin -- is described here: dahliamalkhi.github.io/posts/2022/06/…

Highly recommended. Shadaj Laddad shows how sequential llvm code (eg c++) can be autoconverted to coordination-free distributed code. Hydro project vision coming to life!

Another advantage of a DAG-based approach to BFT Consensus is enabling simple and smooth prevention of BEV, demonstrated in dahliamalkhi.github.io/posts/2022/07/… - no secret share verification - no material changes to underlying DAG - microseconds latency happy path - no threshold encryption

A simple Byzantine Generals solution: ✅ Deterministic and unconditional Safety ✅ Unknown and Dynamic Participation ✅ Instant finality 🚫 high energy consumption of P-o-W 🚫 probabilistic finality 🚫 high latency with Ling Ren and Atsuki Momose blog.chain.link/instant-finali…

Excited to hear Audrey Cheng present her work this afternoon on TaoBench, a new DB benchmark derived from Meta's TAO workload. #VLDB2022 engineering.fb.com/2022/09/07/ope…

Check out planetscaledata’s blog post on TAOBench! planetscale.com/blog/taobench-…

VLDB 2022 is a wrap and the Gray Systems Lab (GSL) had a fabulous year with: 10 Papers, 1 Best Demo Award, 1 Distinguished Reviewer Award!!! And more than half of these efforts are in or on their way to production!! If you like this kind of life come…lnkd.in/dVPB9WFB

We've lined up an exciting set of Keynote speakers for ACM SoCC'22. Check out the details here: acmsocc.org/2022/keynotes.… Moreover, we will have keynote talks from the industry as well!! More details to follow!! Deniz Altınbüken Carsten Binnig Ana Klimovic Joe Hellerstein Kunle Olukotun

Want to work on something forward-looking? I’m hiring a Research Software Engineer to work on the future of cloud programming. Experience with DBs, Distributed Sys, Rust, compilers all a plus. Must be local SFBay. Berkeley Hydro project bit.ly/hydrocidr21. DM me!

Releasing Skyplane, a new open-source tool to move huge datasets between clouds. Skyplane is: 1. 🔥 Blazing fast (110x faster) 2. 🤑 Cheap (4x cheaper) 3. 🌐 Universal (AWS, Azure and GCP) Read more: medium.com/@paras_jain/sk… github.com/skyplane-proje… skyplane.org 1/

Katara, our system for automatically synthesizing CRDT designs from sequential data types (arxiv.org/abs/2205.12425), is now open-source at github.com/hydro-project/…! Deep-dive blog posts into the implementation coming soon!

A little while ago Cass Sunstein asked what happened to Elysian understandings of democracy. Past five years I've been working on an answer - 'The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy' is complete (forthcoming Cambridge University Press summer 2023) and sets out to reframe the field

Raluca Ada Popa @OpaqueSys Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social) OtterTune  Alfred Chuang 🚀🚀🚀are dropping data infrastructure knowledge. #RaceSummit 🏎️

TAOBench provides open access to Meta's social network workloads. The benchmark offers unique insights for systems, which we detail in a new blog post (audreyccheng.com/blog/taobench/). Code: github.com/audreyccheng/t… taobench.org

If you missed my Qcon talk, I'll cover similar ground in my ACM SoCC keynote tomorrow AM for my academic friends. And/or check out Hydro.run