Some Interesting Conferences and Talks on Cloud, Distributed Systems and Networking

Marco Cello
2 min readFeb 15, 2022
Alte Pinakothek, Munich — Marco Cello

Original post on LinkedIn.

The amount of talks and conferences about cloud, distributed systems and networking can be, sometimes, overwhelming and navigate through them, looking for best practices, new ideas or approaches, can be really difficult or simply time consuming.

No matter if you are an experience professional or a young IT guy working on cloud, distributed systems and networking.

I would like to share with you a distilled list of conferences and talks on cloud, distributed systems and networking. This list is helping me a lot either to stay up to date on more technical trends and best practices but also to literate myself about the academia and where industry research is going to in the next few years. I divided it in 3 tiers.

Hope you will like it!

1° Tier — Research oriented with theoretical approaches and testbed-based implementations. Professionals in industry might want to take a look for very future real system applications

ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles — ACM SOSP (https://sosp19.rcs.uwaterloo.ca)

ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing — ACM SOCC (https://acmsocc.github.io/2020/)

IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems — IEEE ICDCS (https://icdcs2020.sg/)

USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation — USENIX OSDI (https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20)

USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation — USENIX NSDI (https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi20)

ACM/IFIP Middleware (https://2020.middleware-conference.org/)

ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies — ACM CoNEXT (https://conferences2.sigcomm.org/co-next/2019/#!/home)

ACM SIGCOMM (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2020/)

International Federation for Information Processing Networking Conference — IFIP Networking (https://networking.ifip.org/2020/)

2° Tier — Less pure-research oriented. Real applications and experience from industry-like systems. A really good mix of innovations and real-life usage

USENIX conference on Hot topics in cloud computing — USENIX HotCloud (https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud20)

USENIX Annual Technical Conference — USENIX ATC (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc20)

USENIX SREcon (https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon20americas)

USENIX Large Installation System Administration Conference — USENIX LISA (https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa21)

3° Tier — Hands-on conferences with practical approaches, best practices (technical and cultural-wise) and state-of-the-art tools

DevOps Days (https://devopsdays.org/)

GOTO (https://gotopia.tech/)

DevOpsCon (https://devopscon.io/)

Velocity Conference (https://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity/)

KubeCon/CloudNativeCon (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america/)

QCON (https://qconferences.com/)

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