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!

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

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

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 👀