Looking to learn about UX design. Any intro book or course recs?

This is a must-read annual review on database systems. 👀

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

If you're going to be at CIDR this month and want to grab coffee hmu!

Anyone have recs for good Discord communities about AI coding?

The program is up for CIDR 2026. We have two exciting keynotes planned!

Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs

How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson

www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pro...

GitHub - steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to steveyegge/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.

Really liking Beads. Super quick upgrade to the coding agent workflow. github.com/steveyegge/b...

2025 in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo Webcast Dec 10: DBMS researchers Mike Stonebraker (MIT / DBOS) and Andy Pavlo (CMU) discuss which data and CS trends are heating up or cooling down heading into 2026.

Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

Links:
samkumar.org
languagesforsyste.ms/post/looking...
stephanie-wang.github.io
cs.stanford.edu/~edauterman/
dx-tang.github.io

Its PhD application season. Here are a few very cool new professors from my lab who you should apply to work with!

Sam Kumar: UCLA Systems+Security
Mae Milano: Princeton PL+Systems
Stephanie Wang: UW Systems
Emma Dauterman: Stanford Systems+Security
Dixin Tang: UT Austin Data

Registration is now open for CIDR 2026 from January 18th-21st in Santa Cruz! Hope to see you all there!

cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...

The CIDR 2026 Test of Time award goes to the 2007 paper "Database Cracking" by Idreos, Kersten, and Manegold. This line from their intro definitely held up well in the age of cloud + ML "A database system should be able to handle huge sets of data and self-organize according to the environment"

The accepted papers for CIDR 2026 are up!

I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control"

cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...

very cool idea!

South Bay Systems: Speedrunning the Lakehouse · Luma The South Bay Systems meetup is back! This time we’re excited to have Jacopo Tagliabue, co-founder and CTO of Bauplan, to dive into Speedrunning the Lakehouse:…

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

Great talks last night at SF Systems Meetup. Thanks to the speakers and to OpenAI for hosting!

SF Systems May Meetup: Intelligent Fuzzers and WASM · Luma The SF Systems Meetup is back for our second event of the year! There's no strict theme for this event, but we have two exciting headlining talks: Brian…

Join us for the next SF Systems Meetup, generously hosted by OpenAI! We have an exciting pair of talks on fuzz testing and WebAssembly, you won't want to miss them: lu.ma/ltsl9g50

South Bay Systems Meetup: Wrangling Data with DuckDB · Luma The South Bay Systems meetup is back! This time we’re excited to have Hannes Mühleisen, co-founder of DuckDB, to dive into Wrangling Data with DuckDB. This…

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

Upcoming events on local-first:

• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks

• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)

The lineup for the 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data is now up. The programme looks excellent, sad not to be able to attend. @abeldantas.bsky.social will be presenting our paper on VR collaboration. papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/program...

SF Systems Meetup: Correctness and Security for Distributed Systems · Luma The SF Systems Meetup is back for the new year! This meetup, our theme is correctness and security. It's easy to write a distributed protocol, but very hard to…

SF Systems Meetup signup is live. Hope to see you there!

lu.ma/vqjf30k3

Excited to share our ICDT 2025 paper on a theoretical framework to connect CRDTs and the CALM Theorem! We formalize the intuitions given in the Keep CALM and CRDT On work about the gap between CRDT guarantees and monotonic queries. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00222

Hydro - Build for Every Scale

fun to see hydro.run hit the top of Hackernews today. Happy to answer folks questions about Hydro in the thread there!

Still time to write a short paper for PaPoC.

Today is the last day to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam! The best conference in systems with an awesome lineup this year! cidrdb.org/cidr2025/pro...

Thanks for giving the talk! See you at the next meetup!

SF Systems Meetup 2024 - Transactions and Serverless are Made for Each Other | DBOS

Better late than never 😂 Happy to share a recap of my SF Systems talk from last month. I've put together a summary of the session along with some great Q&A moments: www.dbos.dev/blog/sf-syst...

Thanks to the organizers and everyone who showed up—it was an amazing experience!
#dataBS #serverless

Why are Things Associative? The big three algebraic properties that show up in the distributed systems literature are associative, commutativity, and idempotency (EYE-dem-po-ten-see)....

Fun NULL BITMAP today talking associativity. A topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...

The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html