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/ .
Looking to learn about UX design. Any intro book or course recs?
January 15, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Looking to learn about UX design. Any intro book or course recs?
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This is a must-read annual review on database systems. 👀
I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
www.cs.cmu.edu
January 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
This is a must-read annual review on database systems. 👀
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Our next event will be on January 21st, featuring speakers from (the just-finishing) CIDR! Come to Databricks to hear about:
* DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU
* Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM
* NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau
luma.com/8a54z94d
* DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU
* Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM
* NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau
luma.com/8a54z94d
South Bay Systems: Innovative Data Systems Research · Luma
Welcome to another edition of South Bay Systems! This time we bring you three wonderful talks from authors at the just-finishing Conference in Innovative Data…
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January 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Our next event will be on January 21st, featuring speakers from (the just-finishing) CIDR! Come to Databricks to hear about:
* DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU
* Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM
* NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau
luma.com/8a54z94d
* DuckDB on xNVMe by @pinartozun.bsky.social of ITU
* Spilling in QP by Maximilian Kuschewski of TUM
* NPUs in DBs by Alexander Baumstark of TU-Ilmenau
luma.com/8a54z94d
If you're going to be at CIDR this month and want to grab coffee hmu!
January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
If you're going to be at CIDR this month and want to grab coffee hmu!
Anyone have recs for good Discord communities about AI coding?
December 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Anyone have recs for good Discord communities about AI coding?
The program is up for CIDR 2026. We have two exciting keynotes planned!
Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs
How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson
www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pro...
Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs
How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson
www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pro...
CIDR 2026 – Program
The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Program
www.cidrdb.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The program is up for CIDR 2026. We have two exciting keynotes planned!
Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs
How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson
www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pro...
Analyzing Metastable Failures by Rebecca Isaacs
How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint by David Patterson
www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/pro...
Really liking Beads. Super quick upgrade to the coding agent workflow. github.com/steveyegge/b...
GitHub - steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to steveyegge/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Really liking Beads. Super quick upgrade to the coding agent workflow. github.com/steveyegge/b...
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Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
2025 in Review with Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo
Webcast Dec 10: DBMS researchers Mike Stonebraker (MIT / DBOS) and Andy Pavlo (CMU) discuss which data and CS trends are heating up or cooling down heading into 2026.
www.dbos.dev
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Do you like databases?
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them?
Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases?
If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...
There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
CIDR 2026 - Registration
The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Registration Information
www.cidrdb.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
There is still time to register for CIDR 2026 in Santa Cruz! If you need a roommate for the conference, there is also a spreadsheet you can use to find someone! www.cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
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...
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
CIDR 2026 - Registration
The 16th Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR 2026), Registration Information
cidrdb.org
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...
cidrdb.org/cidr2026/reg...
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!
Reposted by Conor Power
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
Reposted by Conor Power
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...