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This week at SIGCOMM, Inho Choi will present a paper about a fast TCP migration and load balancing system called Capybara, which means it’s time for… another episode of Distributed Systems Explained by ̶C̶a̶t̶s̶ Capybaras!

L4 load balancers are fast, scalable, and widely used in cloud systems: when a new connection arrives, the load balancer picks a server for it. For our purposes, connections are birds and servers are capybaras.

This bird has been assigned to a server.

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#distributedsystems #networking #capybara #sigcomm #distributedsystemsexplainedbycats

Some of you will probably be at @ACM_SIGCOMM in Denver next week?

I won't be but you should say Hi to two of my students, Ghazal and Pavani!

Ghazal will be presenting at the NetNeg workshop about some limitations we ran into in trying to do proactive predictions for the classic mice/elephant flow networking problem She is also looking for jobs, so definitely talk to her if you're interested in hiring someone with experience using data mining and ML techniques to solve problems using datasources such as network traces: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghazal-abdollahi-b3206a2a9/

Pavani does a lot of work with low-level network programming, especially P4. She has dealt with what I consider to be some of the most painful networking technologies to get actually working; in addition to P4 (on real switches) she's worked with FPGA NICs, dpdk, and RDMA. She has a couple pieces of work that are or will be under submission, but is looking for some more ideas. She'll be at the N2Women workshop, too. https://pavanikuppili.github.io/

#sigcomm

The 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Networking (APNet '25) will be held on August 7-8,2025, at Shanghai, China. We have 2 keynote speeches, 4 industry talks, 4 academic insight talks, 34 paper talks, 35 posters and 1 panel discussion.

Registration is available at the link below:
https://conferences.sigcomm.org/events/apnet2025/registration.php

We welcome everyone to attend the conference, gather in Shanghai, and explore cutting-edge topics in computer networking! #SIGCOMM #ACM @ACM_SIGCOMM

Hmm.

Old @ACM #SIGCOMM about to be garbage collected. 😥

#decluttering #moving

Papers from QuNet 2023, the first #SIGCOMM workshop on quantum networking, are available at
https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/3610251

There is an important effort underway to improve the #SIGCOMM conference in a way that builds the foundation for the future of networking. We covered this in our newsletter a few weeks back and this week we invited Scott Shenker to contribute a guest post. Scott argues (and we agree) that increasing the inclusiveness of the conference (particularly by accepting more papers) is more important than waiting to achieve consensus on every detail of the changes required. His arguments are worth a read. https://open.substack.com/pub/systemsapproach/p/abstraction-merchants-revisited?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web