South Bay Systems

South Bay Systems is an independent tech talk series focused on systems programming. It is entirely community-run, not affiliated with any company.

We are focused on high quality talks and expert speakers. Talks about engineering, not product pitches.

Speakers will share their experience building, debugging, testing, and maintaining:

Schedule

Date Event Speaker Artifacts
August 6th, 2025 ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! The Future of Automated Database Tuning Andy Pavlo recording
July 22nd, 2025 Speedrunning the Lakehouse Jacopo Tagliabue slides
April 23rd, 2025 Wrangling Data with DuckDB Hannes Mühleisen slides
March 11th, 2025 It’s Time to Replace TCP in the Datacenter John Ousterhout recording

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Brought to you by

Qian Li, Alex Miller, Oussama Saoudi, Vishwanath Seshagiri, and Yingjun Wu.

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