There are only 8 days to October, and the NINeS deadline! Submit your finest ideas.

Interesting (and scary) to see a blog post (https://thenewstack.io/research-ebpf-not-always-a-silver-bullet-for-network-apps/) about a new paper (led by @fshahinfar1.bsky.social, along with @gianniantichi.bsky.social and Sebastiano) explainging that the new shiny technology is not a panacea.

We are getting closer to the NINeS deadline (October 1). Watch Scott talk about why you should submit your work to NINeS!

Have you wondered about challenges in designing and running a datacenter that count up to 512K GPUs? "Astral: A Datacenter Infrastructure for Large Language Model Training at Scale" will be presented at ACM SIGCOMM! Work in collaboration with Nanjing University, Harvard University and Tencent!

This week, we hear @natefoster.bsky.social's response to Why Nines? A cat is involved in producing the video, but like many good producers does not appear in the video.

Here is a good reason to submit your paper to CoNEXT 2026: I will be the PC chair :)

Next up @apanda talks about Why Nines? No cats this time because they were all busy working on their NINeS papers.

Watch @gianniantichi.bsky.social (and Ludo) answer the question Why NINeS?

📢 We are excited to announce NINeS, a new online conference dedicated to bold, foundational ideas in networked systems! Submissions due Oct 1; event on Feb 10. Join us! nines-conference.org #NINeS

Here's the #nsdi25 Time of Time Award certificate!

GigaFlow featured in University of Michigan news! Streamlining cloud traffic with a Gigaflow Cache: cse.engin.umich.edu/stories/stre... (full paper available in ACM ASPLOS proceedings)

Enabling Virtual Priority in Data Center Congestion Control won the best student paper award at ACM EuroSys 2025! We propose a solution that extend existing congestion control algorithms for virtual priority transmission! This wasn't possible without the star student Zhaochen and all the co-authors!

📢 Call for Papers 📢 The CFP for the 2025 eBPF workshop is out! 📅 Deadline: May 8th 🔗 More info: conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025... Don't miss the chance to share your work with the eBPF 🐝community!

📢Call for Papers 📢 The CFP for the 2025 eBPF workshop is out! 📅 Deadline: May 8th 🔗 More info: conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2025... Don't miss the chance to share your work with the eBPF 🐝community!

The eBPF workshop will run this year associated to ACM SIGCOMM again! We (Sebastiano Miano, Srinivas Narayana, @aurojit.bsky.social, @pchaigno.bsky.social, Eugenio Moro, myself and TPC members) are looking forward to read your exciting papers! More info soon!

Recently, I have been busy exploring eBPF Arena — a new API that enables eBPF programs to allocate memory pages; similar functionality as mmap and munmap . I've written a blog post about it that I like to share with you: fshahinfar1.github.io/blog/04_ebpf...

The report from this summer's Dagstuhl seminar on Programmable Host Networking has been published: doi.org/10.4230/DagR...! #ebpf #DPDK #DPU

Less than a month to the HotOS 2025 deadline (January 15). Submit your “hottest” systems ideas (by which I of course mean most interesting and fun ideas), and come hangout in Banff for two days in May. More details in the CFP at sigops.org/s/conference....

To PhD & MSc students Research Internship — Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK! Three topics for summer 2025: (1) Wearable Intelligence for MedTech (2) Sensory Wearables for MedTech (3) Wearable Systems for MedTech Apply: 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/fahimk...

you didn't even give me enough time to suggest github.com/yarrick/pingfs