SOSP 2026 Prague in Review: The Systems Papers Cloud Architects Should Read First
SOSP 2026 met in Prague September 29 to October 2. A reading list from the accepted papers on verification, LLM serving, shared logs and operations.
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Adaptive Concurrent Prefetching and the New I/O Bottleneck: What GCSFS 2026.8.0 Says About Cloud Storage Research
gcsfs 2026.8.0 makes concurrent prefetching the default read path, turning cloud storage reads from a network wait into a compute-bound operation.
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Serverless Computing Grows Up: What a 2026 Literature Review Says About HPC and Big Data on FaaS
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The Move Away from Single-Leader Consensus: What 2026's Multi-Leader Database Research Means for Cloud APIs
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SOSP 2026 Prague in Review: The Systems Papers Cloud Architects Should Read First
SOSP 2026 met in Prague September 29 to October 2. A reading list from the accepted papers on verification, LLM serving, shared logs and operations.
Read more →FPGA-Accelerated Distributed Transactions: What SafarDB Signals About Hardware-Software Co-Design in Databases
SafarDB moves replicated-data-type transaction logic onto the FPGA-resident NIC itself, reporting 6.8x latency and throughput gains over RDMA-based replication.
Read more →Adaptive Concurrent Prefetching and the New I/O Bottleneck: What GCSFS 2026.8.0 Says About Cloud Storage Research
gcsfs 2026.8.0 makes concurrent prefetching the default read path, turning cloud storage reads from a network wait into a compute-bound operation.
Read more →