oct 29, 2026
unfortunately, computers
systems talks in san francisco
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apparently “save my changes” means “make me another computer."?!
Diptanu decided this was an unreasonable amount of computer. So he built copy-on-write layering into Firecracker.
we’re getting into dirty bitmaps, shared base images, and snapshotting a running Postgres image
come hang with systems people who also think saving one file should be a reasonably small request.
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unfortunately, “it works” only raises more questions.
we’re a group of systems engineers who host talks about what’s happening underneath.
we do databases, distributed systems, runtimes, networking, and infrastructure.
come share what you’re working on, ask questions, or follow a topic a few layers deeper. check out our past talks to see what we’re into.
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- huffman got blamed for google's std::string::push_back
- docker got the ram in the divorce
- we ran out of h100s but the monkeys work pretty well
- forbidden techniques in agentic over-engineering
- openai let in the webrtc trojan horse
- fearless until the second node
- how fast can you count?
- compute with commitment issues
- vibe coding the hot path
- everything failed as planned
- s3 is the new disk
- ef ef ef