About us
BayLISA is the premiere system administration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 20 years.
We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, including links to membership, sponsorship, and mailing lists, at www.baylisa.org.
Our legacy description:
One way to put it is that there are many user groups, but we are the sysadmins group. BayLISA includes system and network administrators across a range of skill levels. BayLISA meets monthly to discuss topics of interest to administrators and managers of sites supporting more than 100 users and/or computers. The meetings are free and open to the public.
BayLISA grew out of an after-hours discussion among attendees of the USENIX LISA IV conference. The idea was to provide a forum for Sysadmin professionals in the San Francisco Bay area to get together and exchange ideas, hear speakers address topics of interest and most importantly, socialize.
BayLISA stands for: Bay Area Large Installation System Administrators
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Upcoming events
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Breaking the Memory Barrier: How EloqKV Replaces DRAM-Based Redis with SSD
Koll Oakmead Park, 3350 Scott Blvd Building 54, 3350 Scott Blvd Building 54, Santa Clara, CA, USNote: please fill out this simple form in advance of attending the meeting to allow for smoother flow at the front door, and help us with organizing this and upcoming events. Thank you!
Abstract:
Driven by AI workloads, rapidly rising DRAM costs are pushing infrastructure toward NVMe and SSD-based designs. However, preserving sub-millisecond tail latency on persistent storage remains a major engineering challenge.
In this session, we explore the architectural patterns required to maintain P99.99 performance while moving beyond memory-only systems. We’ll dive into EloqKV’s execution model, focusing on how coroutines and io_uring are used to manage asynchronous I/O without blocking.
You’ll learn how cache-miss requests are handled efficiently, and the key trade-offs involved in scheduling requests across modern hardware hierarchies.Speakers:
Jeff Chen is the Co-founder and Chief Architect of EloqData. Prior to EloqData, he was Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. His research focused on data management systems and data-intensive applications. He was the architect of Azure Cosmos DB Graph, the inventor of SQL Server Selective XML Index and shipped several core innovations to the Bing big data platform. He has authored dozens of publications in top-tier database conferences (SIGMOD, VLDB and ICDE). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC San Diego and lives at the intersection of deep research and real-world engineering.Timing:
7:00--7:30 Social Session
7:30--7:45 Announcements & Introductions
7:45-ish Presentation25 attendees
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