The recording from our last meetup is up!
youtu.be/8j1Dqi2M_pI
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Our next event will be on January 21st, featuring speakers from (the just-finishing) CIDR! Come to Databricks to hear about:
* DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU
* Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM
* NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau
luma.com/8a54z94d
Yesterday was our final @southbaysystems.xyz talk event of 2025 (what a year!). Huge thanks to @julianhyde.bsky.social and Yuanyuan for their awesome talks! A big shout-out to our amazing host, @startreedata.bsky.social, for the venue and food!
Our next event is on November 19th at StarTree’s office in downtown Mountain View. Come hear about Morel from Julian Hyde and and Query Optimization as a Service from Yuanyuan Tian!
luma.com/xygolo9c
The recording from our last South Bay Systems meetup is now available!
youtu.be/f1bz3efUJpM
We had a great turnout for great talks in a beautiful office!
Then, we'll have "The Evolution of Semi-Structured Data Analytics" by Owen Xiao, Co-founder of VeloDB and PMC member of Apache Doris, where we'll hear about the difficulties of analytics on semi-structured data, and the approach that Apache Doris took to address them.
Our first talk is "Low-Latency Serving on Cloud Object Stores with Apache Pinot" by Songqiao Su and Raghav Yadav, both Staff Engineers from StarTree, to talk about storage tiering and iceberg support under low-latency, real-time analytics requirements.
South Bay Systems returns on October 27th at Adobe in downtown San Jose. We have an Analytics-on-Object-Storage double feature this time starring two different Apache projects: Apache Pinot and Apache Doris. (Talk descriptions below.)
Register now!
luma.com/9o6bahgc
There was an accident with the recording where audio wasn't captured, so instead we can offer a recording from one of Jakob's practice runs on twitch: www.twitch.tv/videos/25845...
Had a fun time at the South Bay Systems meetup last night. Thanks @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting!
@codedrift.social gave a great talk on WebAssembly: what it is (and isn't), how it connects to WASI, and promising projects. He cuts through a lot of the hype vs. reality. Recording coming soon.
The South Bay Systems talk series is back on Oct 2nd.
@codedrift.social will talk about the history and novel use cases of WebAssembly. Perfect timing too: Wasm 3.0 just released, and it is turning 10 this year.
Huge thanks to @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting!
Register here: luma.com/p3mibf27
☕️ Friends in the Bay Area: August coffee chat time!
We're hosting the @southbaysystems.xyz August Coffee Chat next week. Come hang out with other systems folks for some casual conversations.
🗓 Thursday, August 28, 5–6 pm
📍 Courtyard outside Philz Sunnyvale
🔗 lu.ma/97e10ef4
Hope to see you there!
Andy Pavlo presenting the slide "Agentic Reasoning for Databases"
We had our biggest @southbaysystems.xyz meetup yet last night! Thanks to everyone who came, and thanks to Databricks for hosting!
@andypavlo.bsky.social discussed the 50-year history of database tuning, applying AI/ML to the problem, and the future of auto-tuning (agentic reasoning, of course).
Attention, South Bay folk! We have The Databaseologist, @andypavlo.bsky.social, giving a talk in the bay on August 6th. Come join us for a great time in hearing:
ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! The Future of Automated Database Tuning
Register now! https://lu.ma/ha0dc4nj
Jacopo Tagliabue is presenting a live demo of Bauplan in front of a crowd.
Qian Li is introducing South Bay Systems to the audience.
Packed room at the South Bay Systems Meetup last night!
Thank you to everyone who joined us: engineers, students, tech leaders, and curious minds alike. It was incredible to see such a vibrant and engaged crowd come together around systems and infrastructure.
Slides are posted: southbaysystems.xyz
The South Bay Systems meetup is back on July 22!
We're excited to welcome Jacopo Tagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa).
🔗 lu.ma/5zcpbae9
☀️Summer is heating up, and so is systems chat!
We're hosting a @southbaysystems.xyz June Coffee Chat next week. Come hang out with other systems folks for some casual conversations.
🗓 Thursday, June 5, 5–6 pm
📍 Courtyard outside Philz Sunnyvale
Register here: lu.ma/67yxr1pn
Hope to see you there!
The next South Bay Systems meetup is live! 🦆
We're excited to invite @hannes.muehleisen.org co-founder of @duckdb.org for a talk on "Wrangling Data with DuckDB".
🗓️ April 23 at 6pm
📌 Hosted by Databricks at their Mountain View office.
Register at lu.ma/ri5kt4vt
Follow us: @southbaysystems.xyz
The recording from our inaugural talk, "It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter" by John Ousterhout, is now live! Thanks again to Yugabyte for the great venue, and the recording setup!
youtu.be/Nh-WZZi-Zic
A photo showing the attendees listening to John Ousterhout's talk.
Call for talks slide. Engineering, not product pitch Any area: Networking Systems at scale Operating systems Databases Compilers Security Hardware Verification and testing Etc…
Thank you all for joining us at the first South Bay Systems meetup! It was wonderful to meet everyone, and a special thanks to @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting the event.
If you missed it, we recorded the talk and will share the link soon @southbaysystems.xyz
Recap and call for talks 🧵
South Bay Systems will be having its first talk!
Come and see "It's Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter" by John Ousterhout. It will be on March 11th, 6pm to 8pm, generously hosted by @yugabytedb.bsky.social at their Sunnyvale office.
Register at lu.ma/vcwd7npw
Hello! We are organizing our first South Bay Systems Coffee Chat next week. Register here: lu.ma/2f8y3fsj
(w/ @alexmillerdb.bsky.social @yingjunwu.bsky.social)
We're planning some talks in the upcoming weeks. Please follow the official account @southbaysystems.xyz 🦋 Stay tuned 👀