Mastodawn

The call for papers for the eBPF'26 workshop is open: https://ebpf.github.io/2026/cfp.html. This year, the workshop will be hosted by @sospconf, the top academic conference in OS research, happening in Prague in late September! The deadline for submissions is June 19th, in just over 4 months.

Aurojit Panda Feb 9

NINeS 2026 is tomorrow! We have just posted (at nines-conference.org/attend) details on how to join the livestream, which starts at 1am UTC, and will let you experience what is going on at several pods and also hear our keynotes. We hope you join us.

We also have:

- Contributed talks on a variety of topics.
- Talk videos for all of the accepted papers.
- A Discord server where you can discuss all this (and more) with others!

More information can be found at https://nines-conference.org/attend. We hope you join us tomorrow!!

Attending NINeS 2026

Aurojit Panda Jan 31

February 10th, and thus the inaugural edition of NINeS is just around the corner. You can participate from anywhere in the world, at times that are convenient to you. See https://nines-conference.org/attend for information on how you can participate. We hope to see you on the 10th, so we can discuss interesting ideas in networking research!

Attending NINeS 2026

Aurojit Panda Jan 2

Contribute a recorded talk to NINeS! We are soliciting per-recorded videos that are up to 15-minutes long. Find details about topics at https://nines-conference.org/cft. We are excited to see what you come up with!

NINeS 2026: Call for Talks

Aurojit Panda Dec 15

Shriram Krishnamurthi Dec 15

The best description of Brown University, from Bess Kalb. (And to be clear, the heirs and star's kids are invariably also in that carton.)
https://besskalb.substack.com/p/brown-america

Aurojit Panda Oct 23

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.)

Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in the Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Aurojit Panda Sep 17, 2025

Paul Chaignon Sep 17, 2025

The papers and slides from the @ACM_SIGCOMM eBPF workshop are all online now! https://pchaigno.github.io/ebpf/2025/09/17/third-ebpf-workshop.html

Thanks to everyone who participated and presented in this third edition!

eBPF Workshops

This post presents the material (papers and presentation slides) from the three editions of the eBPF workshop at ACM SIGCOMM, from 2023 to 2025.

pchaigno

Aurojit Panda Sep 16, 2025

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.

Research: eBPF Not Always a 'Silver Bullet' for Network Apps

Contrary to popular belief, eBPF does not always hasten performance. Sometimes it can actually slow an application -- and slow its neighbors too.

The New Stack

Aurojit Panda Sep 16, 2025

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.

NINeS 2026

Aurojit Panda Jul 30, 2025

John Regehr Jul 30, 2025

maybe this could be avoided if academic papers came with some sort of short summary. if this were provided by the authors, then we wouldn't need to rely on expensive and unreliable tools to generate them. think how convenient it would be if the authors put these summaries right near the start of the paper!!

https://www.sigarch.org/the-role-of-llms-in-academic-reviewing/

The role of LLMs in academic reviewing

Editor’s note: With continuing proliferation of LLMs and their capabilities, academic community started to discuss their potential role in paper reviewing process. Some conferences are alread…

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