Copilot is insisting to me that 2PL is serializable and multiversioned timestamp ordering is not. MVTSO is *the* best concurrency control invented. Don't you dare insult it Copilot. We're through.

EECS is hiring! Open faculty positions are now available. We welcome applicants from all areas focusing on originality and research promise. Join us in shaping the future of EECS! #UCBerkeley #EECS 🔗 More info: bit.ly/3AaLZdY 🔗 bit.ly/3YgWDb6

Awesome to see our new consensus protocol Autobahn having impact in industry! (@ this year's SOSP: arxiv.org/abs/2401.10369) Excited to see Somnia power Improbable's Msquared : somnia.network/somnia-s-data-… PS: Hire Florian, Neil, the brains behind Autobahn! Ittai Abraham Florian Suri-Payer

The next SF Systems Meetup is coming up! Talks will be Alex Krentsel on software-defined networking and Peter Kraft and Qian Li on Transactions in Serverless! Register here lu.ma/lhuuiur5 and check out sfsystemsclub.com for more details.

Neil Giridharan from UC Berkeley EECS presented Autobahn, a high-throughput BFT protocol that offers both low latency and seamless recovery (from events that interrupt progress) at @IllinoisCDS Systems Research Seminar. The work is published at SOSP '24, dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Hire Neil (next year)!

We're excited to announce that the VLDB Summer School will take place from Monday, 28th of July, to Thursday, 31st of July, 2025 at the University of Wroclaw, in Poland! 🇵🇱 More details to follow soon ☀️

I am disappointed to see that Brown no longer requires me to rate the artistic ability of the people I am recommending me for PhD admissions in CS. I was enjoying the mandatory tap dancing interview prior to agreeing to write them a letter Computer Systems and Networks @ Brown.

Dear Students, as University X require me to rate your artistitic ability, and University Y require me to rate your competency in a foreign language. I henceforth require all meetings to be conducted in French while dancing a cèilidh as a precondition to me writing a reference

Female colleagues in CS: how often a year do you get mistaken for one of your male colleagues' secretary? I'm already at one this year and it's not even Feb! PS: you don't want me coordinating your calendar. I will accidentally double book you and schedule 7 am meetings.

A poodle, a latte, California sun and Andy Pavlo (@andypavlo.bsky.social)'s new query optimizer lecture course. Not a bad start to a Saturday morning walk.

Very grateful to be part of the 2025 Sloan Research Fellow cohorts (and in the company of the amazing Raul Castro Fernandez!). Thank you my fantastic students and amazing colleagues who have made this possible! Many of them will be graduating soon. Hire them!

Massive shoutout to Neil Giridharan, Florian Suri-Payer, Ittai Abraham, Lorenzo Alvisi, and Natacha Crooks for their insightful work on Autobahn (which heavily inspired the design of broadcast::linked) 🙇

Many federal-funded success stories in the data systems universe that I’m aware of, including Google (2+ T) - from Stanford - and Databricks (60B) from UC Berkeley EECS. Any of these would pay for the costs (eg all of NSF: 10B in total per year) many times over. Cost cutting in