Tianyin Xu

@tianyin_xu

Watchman in a cornfield @IllinoisCDS @ECEILLINOIS @ACMSIGOPS

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David Chu@davidchuyaya · Jul 23

Distributed systems is the most fun field of computer science because of the stories behind each concept. That's why I'm launching Distributed Systems Made Simple, a YouTube channel to tell these stories in a fun way while diving deep into the "why". youtube.com/@DSMadeSimple

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机器之心 JIQIZHIXIN@jiqizhixin · Jul 22

🚨Breaking🚨 Minjie Wang, Chief Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services AI Shanghai Lablet, posted on his WeChat Moments that they had just received notice of the official dissolution of the AWS AI Shanghai Lablet—AWS's last overseas research facility.

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Eric Eide@eeide · Jul 22

📢 The Journal of Systems Research (JSys, @jsysresearch) is looking for senior graduate students, postdocs, and early-career researchers to serve on its Artifact Evaluation Board (AEB). #OpenScience 🧑‍🔬 To learn more/nominate yourself for the AEB, visit forms.gle/PJzS81AhN2TAnD…

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 22

Interesting changes coming to OSDI! I agree with the ops track and limited submissions. Not sure the varying length thing will work - short papers have not fared well in my experience. Agree with no rebuttals. Not sure how replacing revise and resubmit would work?

QQian Li@qianl_cs · Jul 22

I received an email today titled "OSDI '26 Preliminary Call for Papers". Looks like OSDI is adding an Operational Systems track and aiming for a higher acceptance rate (usenix.org/conference/osd…). I hope this will also help expand the scope and include more papers.

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Qian Li@qianl_cs · Jul 22

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 20

A petition to SIGOPS to adopt the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC) and retain its steering committee docs.google.com/document/d/1wK… (not sure whether it can be done by SIGOPS alone, but it's great to let the voice be heard)

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Murat Demirbas (Distributolog)@muratdemirbas · Jul 17

I heard they did this Bingo card thing in PLDI. Other conferences, please take notice! This is a great way to catalyze hallway conversations.

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Thomas Pasquier@tfjmp · Jul 17

The Security & Privacy Group will be hiring multiple fully-funded Master's and PhD students next year. For more information about funding: cs.ubc.ca/students/grad/… To apply: cs.ubc.ca/students/grad/… Explore our latest publications: spg.cs.ubc.ca/publication/

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 17

Two more weeks for a chance to help EuroSys'26 authors to improve their artifacts. Please consider joining the AE committee by Aug 1st. 👇👇👇

BBogdan "Bo" Stoica 👉 @cachemisses.bsky.social@CacheMisses · May 27

What to explore cool research artifacts and help authors improve their work? Join Pierre and me on the EuroSys'26 AE committee. Self-nominate by August 1: forms.gle/tc7xca6PaYFqyY…. Also, check out the full AE call, here: sysartifacts.github.io/eurosys2026/ae…

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 16

Very interesting work from AWS that scales Kubernetes to 10K nodes.

aahmet alp balkan@ahmetb · Jul 16

Similar to GKE 65k node clusters, EKS 100k node clusters is a big achievement! But both come with a big asterisk*: These are very low pod density clusters (1-2 pods per node); and not your regular multi-tenant microservice hosting clusters. aws.amazon.com/blogs/containe…

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Mike Dodds@miike · Jul 16

New Galois blog: “Specifications Don’t Exist”. If we want to formally verify more systems, we need formal specifications, but most real systems are hard to specify for very deep reasons

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Andrew Warfield@andywarfield · Jul 16

Some thoughts on the S3 Vectors preview launch this week. This one has been really fun to build, and it's exciting to be able to finally share it! linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

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Rajeev Alur@RajeevAlur · Jul 15

Very much enjoyed advocating for symbolic reasoning for Trustworthy AI in my NSF CISE lecture, the recording is now available at nsf.gov/events/neurosy…

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 14

Amazing work by Stratos Psomadakis @ps0mas and the others@CSLab @cslab_ntua! Proud and privileged to work with them!

HHotStorage@HotStorage · Jul 11

Best paper award #1 named after Futurewei goes to "SnapBPF: Exploiting eBPF for Serverless Snapshot Prefetching". Congratulations to the authors! #hotstorage2025

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 13

How I became the first Linux user of India: medium.com/@vishalmisra/h…

VVishal Misra@vishalmisra · Jul 12

I’ve actually never told this story before. Maybe I will write up the full story

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云微@yunwei37 · Jul 12

“论文的发表并不是科研最终的目的，帮社区建立一种新的认知，提供一个原来大家没有观测到的视角，找到一个不曾被注意到的现象比提高一个模型的性能更重要。” 希望我也能有机会做到一点点吧...感觉最近还是太摸鱼了

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Tianyin Xu@tianyin_xu · Jul 11

Rex is now an open-source project (github.com/rex-rs/rex) maintained by @Jinghao_J and Ruowen. They are actively looking for new use cases; I heard that they were looking into sched-ext (thank you, @kkdwvd !). Let them know if you want new features for your use cases.

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