Vancouver systems is an independent talk series focused on systems programming.
We are focused on high quality talks and expert speakers here in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
"Systems programming is a way of modelling software development. It's not about a category of what you are working on, it's a way of looking at the problem. An excellent systems programmer fully understands the systems involved. " - Andrew Kelley
We fully believe that you can be an excellent systems programmer while working on anything. Speakers will share their experience building, testing, debugging, and maintaining:
- Compilers, parsers, virtual machines, IDEs, profiling, etc.
- Databases, storage, networking, distributed systems
- Large scale infrastructure, low latency, high availability services
- Formal methods, verification
- Browsers, kernel development, security, etc.
- Algorithms, data structures, performance optimizations, HPC
- Operating Systems / kernels
- Embedded systems, IoT, robotics, etc.
- Machine learning training, inference, compute orchestration
- Many other things..
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Schedule
| Date & Location | TL;DR |
|---|---|
|
Tuesday, June 23rd 2026 Gastown |
Felicitas Pojtinger on "A Digital Ecosystem That Is Free as in Democracy" and Yaroslav Tkachenko on "Streamling: Building a Lightweight Data Streaming Framework on Apache DataFusion". |
| February 24th 2026 |
Terry Purcell on "TiDB SQL Optimizer", Milo Piccini Noble on "Building on CHERI(oT)" and Shivansh on "CUDA over TCP". |
| March 10th 2025 |
Carl Sverre on "Storing Small Things in Big Places" and Nisan Haramati on "The Limits of Scaling & The Physical Properties of Data". |
| Nov 21st 2024 |
Morgan Gallant on "turbopuffer architecture" and Kir Shatrov on "High performance queues in MySQL". |
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This series is organized by Cameron Morgan and Kir Shatrov.
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