FoeFive Years of Running a Systems Reading Group at Microsoft
Hi HN, I've been organizing a systems reading group at Microsoft for five years now. I wrote down some takeaways on what worked (and what didn't). I'd love to hear if anyone else has successfully kept an engineering reading group alive at their company, or if you have any favorite systems papers we should add to our list!
Interesting. We don't have an engineering culture, so definitely no. Did you find similar groups within MSFT?
BTW heard about this paper[1] a few weeks ago, but not completely aligned with database and probably a bit too introductory for your group.
[1]https://www.cs.fsu.edu/~awang/courses/cop5611_s2024/vnode.pd...
There are other groups within Microsoft, but they usually follow a presentation format rather than a collaborative discussion. Off the top of my head, Phil Bernstein[1] and Hanuma Kodavalla[2] run great database seminars for invited speakers. I regularly attend and have presented in both forums; Phil's crowd is mostly researchers, while Hanuma's is mostly full of SQL engineers. Different from a small reading group, but still great.
Appreciate the paper link! We like going back to the basics sometimes, so I'll definitely take a look.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Bernstein
[2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9eNQbZUAAAAJ&hl=en
Thanks for the references!