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jsysresearch

·Dec 28, 2021

2021 Year in Review

We started the Journal of Systems Research (JSys), a new diamond open-access journal, in 2021. We outlined the reasons why we do so, along with its goals and aspirations here. In this post, we look back on one year of operating JSys. …

Open Access

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2021 Year in Review
2021 Year in Review
Open Access

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jsysresearch

·Aug 17, 2020

A new journal for systems research

TLDR: The review process and publication model for systems research is not optimal in a number of ways. We propose a new diamond-access journal, the Journal of Systems Research (jsys.org) to help improve the current state of affairs. A concrete proposal for the journal is available here. The current state…

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A new journal for systems research
A new journal for systems research

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CSR Tales

·Oct 8, 2018

CSR Tale #10: CrashMonkey — finding bugs in file systems (even verified ones!)

I figured it was time for another story of my own. This is the story of the CrashMonkey project, and how it came to be published at OSDI 2018. …

File Systems

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CSR Tale #10: The story of CrashMonkey
CSR Tale #10: The story of CrashMonkey
File Systems

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CSR Tales

·Aug 22, 2018

CSR Tale #9: Reliability of Distributed Storage

CSRTale #9 comes from two award-winning graduate students in Wisconsin, Ramnatthan Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan. Ram and Aishwarya work with Prof. Andrea Arpaci-Dusseau and Prof. Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau in the Advanced Systems Lab. In this CSRTale, they discuss they how started working on distributed-storage reliability at Wisconsin, and lessons learnt along…

Storage

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Storage

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CSR Tales

·May 24, 2018

CSR Tale #8: Why Terrible Reviews Are Good For You!

CSR Tale #8 comes from Prof. Barzan Mozafari at Michigan. Barzan leads a research group designing the next generation of scalable databases using advanced statistical models. Recently, their VATS lock scheduling algorithm was adopted by MySQL and MariaDB, so I chatted with Barzan on how the VATS work came to…

Database

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CSR Tale #8: Why Terrible Reviews Are Good For You!
CSR Tale #8: Why Terrible Reviews Are Good For You!
Database

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CSR Tales

·Apr 19, 2018

CSR Tale #7: The importance of following your curiosity

CSR Tale #7 comes from Prof. Yehia Elkhatib, an Assisstant Professor at Lancaster University, and a visiting professor at École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal. Yehia works on distributed systems and cloud computing, and is the creator and chair of the international Cross-Cloud workshop series. …

Academia

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Academia

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CSR Tales

·Mar 19, 2018

CSR Tale #6: A masterclass in collaboration!

This CSRTale comes from Nipun Batra (post-doc at the University of Virginia), Jack Kelly (researcher at Google DeepMind), and Oliver Parson (Data Scientist at Centrica). The tale starts when all of them were each a PhD student at a different university. It shows how you can often have excellent remote…

Research

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Research

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Mar 2, 2018

How to pick a grad school for a PhD in Computer Science

I’ve been giving this advice to a number of students over the past few days, and following Matt Might’s advice, I’m penning this down quickly as a blog post. …

Education

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Education

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CSR Tales

·Jan 21, 2018

CSR Tale #5: The story of PebblesDB

I figured it was time I pitched in with a story of my own. This is the story of how our PebblesDB key-value store came to be built and published at SOSP 17. The story also involves my post-doc experience at VMware Research. This story begins in 2015, when I…

Research

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Research

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Jan 12, 2018

Tips for Academic Job Interviews

It will be interview season for faculty candidates soon, and I thought I would jot down some tips for job interviews in academia/research labs. This is based on attending job interviews in both UT Austin and VMware Research (where I did my post-doc). …

Interview

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Interview

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