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!

Not sure you need NLP for that, several languages (Rust, Zig, Python, OCaml, and others) have doc tests which surely suffice.

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....

Yeah. Maybe all the touchscreen laptops had it right.

Does the lack of touch confuse him? Does he pinch and zoom?