Boston Systems Reading Group

A place for people to learn about computer systems together.

Computer systems are the building blocks of applications and the fabric that ties them together. Databases, networks, compilers, distributed algorithms, virtualization, programming languages, etc.

We meet weekly in Boston. Every two weeks, we pick a different topic in computer systems, read about it, and work on projects in that area.

No expertise required, we're here to learn together!

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Topics


2025-02-15 and 03-01 LLM Serving Systems

How do we serve large language models at scale?


2025-02-01 and 02-08 Cluster Scheduling, Autoscaling & Task Schedulers

How do large-scale systems allocate resources, schedule tasks, and scale workloads?

Note: Reading group on 01-25 was postponed due to a winter storm.


2025-01-18 Containers

Containers let us run and distribute applications. How do they work under the hood?

Note: This is a shorter, one week topic while we're figuring out the right format.


Acknowledgements

Inspired by NYSRG and NYC Systems. Content on this site was adapted from NYSRG.