https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ is a really interesting read: it is cool to see what went wrong beyond the meme of "it is always DNS". (Also, it is always a race condition too.)

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

The papers and slides from the SIGCOMM'25 #eBPF workshop are all online now! pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2025/09... Thanks to everyone who participated and presented in this third edition!

We are getting close to the NINeS deadline. October 1 is only two-weeks away, and we are very excited to read your submissions. See our website (https://nines-conference.org) to learn more about the conference's philosophy.

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.

Last Thursday I had an awesome opportunity to share my work about eBPF CPU cache efficiency on the ACM student competition stage along six other awesome presentations. I would like to thank the organizers and people who attended session and listened to the talks. youtu.be/HltirZfpfy8?...

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

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.

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

NINeS has such a cool mission statement!

📢 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

📢 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

📢 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!

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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...

I don’t often post about books I enjoy because taste is subjective, etc. But I think more people should read Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky: a lot of the book is about the decline of civilization, but the last bit is a great discussion of the pitfalls of codifying social rules and justice.

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....