Conor Power
@conorpower23.bsky.social
Principal Applied Scientist in Microsoft CoreAI. Working on AI for coding. Co-organizer of SF Systems Meetup. CS PhD from Berkeley Sky Lab where I worked on https://hydro.run/ .
Its PhD application season. Here are a few very cool new professors from my lab who you should apply to work with!
Sam Kumar: UCLA Systems+Security
Mae Milano: Princeton PL+Systems
Stephanie Wang: UW Systems
Emma Dauterman: Stanford Systems+Security
Dixin Tang: UT Austin Data
Sam Kumar: UCLA Systems+Security
Mae Milano: Princeton PL+Systems
Stephanie Wang: UW Systems
Emma Dauterman: Stanford Systems+Security
Dixin Tang: UT Austin Data
November 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Its PhD application season. Here are a few very cool new professors from my lab who you should apply to work with!
Sam Kumar: UCLA Systems+Security
Mae Milano: Princeton PL+Systems
Stephanie Wang: UW Systems
Emma Dauterman: Stanford Systems+Security
Dixin Tang: UT Austin Data
Sam Kumar: UCLA Systems+Security
Mae Milano: Princeton PL+Systems
Stephanie Wang: UW Systems
Emma Dauterman: Stanford Systems+Security
Dixin Tang: UT Austin Data
Registration is now open for CIDR 2026 from January 18th-21st in Santa Cruz! Hope to see you all there!
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
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CIDR 2026 - Registration
The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Registration Information
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November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Registration is now open for CIDR 2026 from January 18th-21st in Santa Cruz! Hope to see you all there!
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
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The CIDR 2026 Test of Time award goes to the 2007 paper "Database Cracking" by Idreos, Kersten, and Manegold. This line from their intro definitely held up well in the age of cloud + ML "A database system should be able to handle huge sets of data and self-organize according to the environment"
October 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The CIDR 2026 Test of Time award goes to the 2007 paper "Database Cracking" by Idreos, Kersten, and Manegold. This line from their intro definitely held up well in the age of cloud + ML "A database system should be able to handle huge sets of data and self-organize according to the environment"
The accepted papers for CIDR 2026 are up!
I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control"
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...
I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control"
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...
CIDR 2026 - Accepted Papers
The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Accepted Papers
cidrdb.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
The accepted papers for CIDR 2026 are up!
I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control"
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...
I'm looking forward to "I Can't Believe It's Not Yannakakis: Pragmatic Bitmap Filters in Microsoft SQL Server" and "Please Don't Kill My Vibe: Empowering Agents with Data Flow Control"
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pap...
very cool idea!
Today’s NULL BITMAP is a very special one—I have been doing NULL BITMAP every week for two years, and to celebrate, this week I got a collection of friends to put together a printable zine of articles. I hope you enjoy it! buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
very cool idea!
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The South Bay Systems meetup is back on July 22!
We're excited to welcome Jacopo Tagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa).
🔗 lu.ma/5zcpbae9
We're excited to welcome Jacopo Tagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa).
🔗 lu.ma/5zcpbae9
South Bay Systems: Speedrunning the Lakehouse · Luma
The South Bay Systems meetup is back! This time we’re excited to have Jacopo Tagliabue, co-founder and CTO of Bauplan, to dive into Speedrunning the Lakehouse:…
lu.ma
July 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The South Bay Systems meetup is back on July 22!
We're excited to welcome Jacopo Tagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa).
🔗 lu.ma/5zcpbae9
We're excited to welcome Jacopo Tagliabue (co-founder and CTO of Bauplan) for a talk on Speedrunning the Lakehouse: Shipping a FaaS that Looks Like a Database (and Vice Versa).
🔗 lu.ma/5zcpbae9
Great talks last night at SF Systems Meetup. Thanks to the speakers and to OpenAI for hosting!
May 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Great talks last night at SF Systems Meetup. Thanks to the speakers and to OpenAI for hosting!
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Join us for the next SF Systems Meetup, generously hosted by OpenAI! We have an exciting pair of talks on fuzz testing and WebAssembly, you won't want to miss them: lu.ma/ltsl9g50
SF Systems May Meetup: Intelligent Fuzzers and WASM · Luma
The SF Systems Meetup is back for our second event of the year! There's no strict theme for this event, but we have two exciting headlining talks:
Brian…
lu.ma
April 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Join us for the next SF Systems Meetup, generously hosted by OpenAI! We have an exciting pair of talks on fuzz testing and WebAssembly, you won't want to miss them: lu.ma/ltsl9g50
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The next South Bay Systems meetup is live! 🦆
We're excited to invite @hannes.muehleisen.org co-founder of @duckdb.org for a talk on "Wrangling Data with DuckDB".
🗓️ April 23 at 6pm
📌 Hosted by Databricks at their Mountain View office.
Register at lu.ma/ri5kt4vt
Follow us: @southbaysystems.xyz
We're excited to invite @hannes.muehleisen.org co-founder of @duckdb.org for a talk on "Wrangling Data with DuckDB".
🗓️ April 23 at 6pm
📌 Hosted by Databricks at their Mountain View office.
Register at lu.ma/ri5kt4vt
Follow us: @southbaysystems.xyz
South Bay Systems Meetup: Wrangling Data with DuckDB · Luma
The South Bay Systems meetup is back! This time we’re excited to have Hannes Mühleisen, co-founder of DuckDB, to dive into Wrangling Data with DuckDB.
This…
lu.ma
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The next South Bay Systems meetup is live! 🦆
We're excited to invite @hannes.muehleisen.org co-founder of @duckdb.org for a talk on "Wrangling Data with DuckDB".
🗓️ April 23 at 6pm
📌 Hosted by Databricks at their Mountain View office.
Register at lu.ma/ri5kt4vt
Follow us: @southbaysystems.xyz
We're excited to invite @hannes.muehleisen.org co-founder of @duckdb.org for a talk on "Wrangling Data with DuckDB".
🗓️ April 23 at 6pm
📌 Hosted by Databricks at their Mountain View office.
Register at lu.ma/ri5kt4vt
Follow us: @southbaysystems.xyz
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Upcoming events on local-first:
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
Local-First Conf 2025
Join us for the second edition of Local-First Conf. Connect with a rapidly-growing community in an intimate setting. Berlin 27th - 28th May 2025.
www.localfirstconf.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Upcoming events on local-first:
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
• Local-first Conf Berlin, Germany, 26–28 May www.localfirstconf.com – for industry folks
• Workshop on Theory and Practice of Decentralized and Local-First Software, Bergen, Norway, 3 July 2025.ecoop.org/home/plf-pla... – for academics (industry crossover welcome)
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The lineup for the 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data is now up. The programme looks excellent, sad not to be able to attend. @abeldantas.bsky.social will be presenting our paper on VR collaboration. papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/program...
Program
The 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data
papoc-workshop.github.io
March 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The lineup for the 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data is now up. The programme looks excellent, sad not to be able to attend. @abeldantas.bsky.social will be presenting our paper on VR collaboration. papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/program...
Excited to share our ICDT 2025 paper on a theoretical framework to connect CRDTs and the CALM Theorem! We formalize the intuitions given in the Keep CALM and CRDT On work about the gap between CRDT guarantees and monotonic queries. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00222
February 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Excited to share our ICDT 2025 paper on a theoretical framework to connect CRDTs and the CALM Theorem! We formalize the intuitions given in the Keep CALM and CRDT On work about the gap between CRDT guarantees and monotonic queries. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00222
fun to see hydro.run hit the top of Hackernews today. Happy to answer folks questions about Hydro in the thread there!
Hydro - Build for Every Scale
hydro.run
January 31, 2025 at 7:37 PM
fun to see hydro.run hit the top of Hackernews today. Happy to answer folks questions about Hydro in the thread there!
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Still time to write a short paper for PaPoC.
The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html
Call for Papers
The 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data
papoc-workshop.github.io
January 11, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Still time to write a short paper for PaPoC.
Today is the last day to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam! The best conference in systems with an awesome lineup this year! cidrdb.org/cidr2025/pro...
CIDR 2025 – Program
CIDR 2024 Program Information
cidrdb.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Today is the last day to register for CIDR 2025 in Amsterdam! The best conference in systems with an awesome lineup this year! cidrdb.org/cidr2025/pro...
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Better late than never 😂 Happy to share a recap of my SF Systems talk from last month. I've put together a summary of the session along with some great Q&A moments: www.dbos.dev/blog/sf-syst...
Thanks to the organizers and everyone who showed up—it was an amazing experience!
#dataBS #serverless
Thanks to the organizers and everyone who showed up—it was an amazing experience!
#dataBS #serverless
SF Systems Meetup 2024 - Transactions and Serverless are Made for Each Other | DBOS
www.dbos.dev
December 18, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Better late than never 😂 Happy to share a recap of my SF Systems talk from last month. I've put together a summary of the session along with some great Q&A moments: www.dbos.dev/blog/sf-syst...
Thanks to the organizers and everyone who showed up—it was an amazing experience!
#dataBS #serverless
Thanks to the organizers and everyone who showed up—it was an amazing experience!
#dataBS #serverless
Fun NULL BITMAP today talking associativity. A topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...
Why are Things Associative?
The big three algebraic properties that show up in the distributed systems literature are associative, commutativity, and idempotency (EYE-dem-po-ten-see)....
buttondown.com
December 16, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Fun NULL BITMAP today talking associativity. A topic I spend a lot of time thinking about. buttondown.com/jaffray/arch...
Reposted by Conor Power
The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html
Call for Papers
The 12th Workshop on Principles and Practice of Consistency for Distributed Data
papoc-workshop.github.io
December 6, 2024 at 10:37 AM
The PaPoC workshop is once again accepting submissions on distributed consistency. Deadline 15 January papoc-workshop.github.io/2025/cfp.html
Happy OSDI submission day to everyone! Wish me luck remembering to spell things the British way to match style with @nacrooks.bsky.social
December 10, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Happy OSDI submission day to everyone! Wish me luck remembering to spell things the British way to match style with @nacrooks.bsky.social
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The latest paper from the #1 CMU-DB PhD student @samarchdb.bsky.social is wild compilation magic! He automatically makes UDFs run 300x faster on SQL Server and 1.3x faster on DuckDB.
Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR...
Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR...
Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
December 6, 2024 at 2:56 PM
The latest paper from the #1 CMU-DB PhD student @samarchdb.bsky.social is wild compilation magic! He automatically makes UDFs run 300x faster on SQL Server and 1.3x faster on DuckDB.
Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR...
Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR...
Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...
The next SF Systems Club Coffee Chat is at 10am tomorrow in Salesforce Park! lu.ma/qereq67o
SF Systems Club: December Coffee Chat · Luma
Join us for a casual hour of chatting about computer systems! Bring your morning beverage of choice, if you so please.
Rain location to be provided later if…
lu.ma
December 5, 2024 at 11:03 PM
The next SF Systems Club Coffee Chat is at 10am tomorrow in Salesforce Park! lu.ma/qereq67o
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Thrilled to share that our paper “Flo: A Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing” (with @mpmilano.bsky.social, Alvin Cheung, and @joehellerstein.bsky.social) will appear at POPL 2025! Check out the preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2411.08274, and read on for more!
Flo: a Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing
Streaming systems are present throughout modern applications, processing continuous data in real-time. Existing streaming languages have a variety of semantic models and guarantees that are often inco...
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December 3, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Thrilled to share that our paper “Flo: A Semantic Foundation for Progressive Stream Processing” (with @mpmilano.bsky.social, Alvin Cheung, and @joehellerstein.bsky.social) will appear at POPL 2025! Check out the preprint at arxiv.org/abs/2411.08274, and read on for more!
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This admissions cycle, I am recruiting PhD students to join my research group! If you're interested in systems or security (including intersections with cryptography, datacenters, AI, etc.), then please apply to UCLA Computer Science and list me on your application as a potential faculty advisor.
![Royce Hall, UCLA.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Royce_Hall_Facade.JPG [Josh Lee, CC BY-SA 3.0]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mufeq6pi3d2f4a4qpv32655v/bafkreifjnugenjmduxpmrtud4ov3pejkydmg3kfsbcbecsljar7jwmqymy@jpeg)
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 AM
This admissions cycle, I am recruiting PhD students to join my research group! If you're interested in systems or security (including intersections with cryptography, datacenters, AI, etc.), then please apply to UCLA Computer Science and list me on your application as a potential faculty advisor.
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One of the highest compliments on scientific work is: “certainly someone must have done that earlier”
November 23, 2024 at 10:38 PM
One of the highest compliments on scientific work is: “certainly someone must have done that earlier”