RIP USENIX ATC
Bryan and Adam discuss the recent announcement of the discontinuation of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), reminiscing about their own visits to the ATC and the impact of the conference. Long-time Oxide Friend, Tom Lyon, joined to dial the reminiscence back a couple more decades!
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- Bryan's blog 2025: RIP USENIX ATC
- Bryan's blog 2004: Wither USENIX?
- Rob Pike 2000: Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
- Adam's blog 2004: nohup -p
- Adam's blog 2009: Triple-Parity RAID-Z
- USENIX DTrace paper
- OxF s1e13: Put the OS back in OSDI
- OxF s1e4: from /proc to proc_macor
- OxF s2e22: RIP Optane
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