We're a collection of programmers, engineers and technologists
living in Austin, TX. We meet once a month (every third Wednesday)
to learn about systems programming. To join us,
click here.
#Schedule
Our next meetup will be Wednesday August 18, 6pm-late, at the
Aussie's Bar & Grill. This is our 1 year anniversary party! We'll have some food and drinks, and a chance to celebrate
all the great talks we've heard and given over the last year. Thanks for making Austin Systems a good time. The bar has parking, and there's a lot of bus stops nearby too.
We're focused on high-quality talks from engineers about what
they've built or learned recently. Not product pitches. We welcome
anyone interested in digging below their abstractions, learning how
their systems work and how to make their own. We learn by teaching,
so if anything is unclear or confusing, we make time to figure it
out as a group.
Speakers will share their experience building, debugging, testing,
and maintaining:
Compilers, parsers, virtual machines, IDEs, profiling, etc.
Databases, storage, networking, distributed systems
Large scale infrastructure, low latency, high availability
services
Formal methods, verification
Browsers, kernel development, security, etc.
Anything else in the spirit of curiosity and excitement about
how computers really work
Talks are not recorded or available remotely. We meet up in-person.
If you're travelling to Austin and would like to give a talk while
you're here, please let us know!
To join us, just register for our invitations
using this form.
August 19th 2025:
Austin Seipp
on building a secure system from a minimal set of cryptographic
primitives,
Sam Scott
on Rudy, a Rust debugger extension for LLDB.
October 15th 2025:
Steve Klabnik
on compiler architecture,
Adam Chalmers
on 2D constraint solvers in Rust + WebAssembly
November 19, 2025:
Joey Buiteweg
on programming ASICs for Cloudflare network interconnect,
Sean Chambers
on audio programming
December 17, 2025: Lightning talks from a range of
people
January 21, 2026: Noah Kennedy on work-stealing and
thread-per-core models of asynchronous programming.
James Coman
on USB protocol and creating a monster hub.
February 18, 2026: Lightning talks from a range of
people
March 19, 2026:
Areg Harutyunyan
on radio, wireless communication protocols and motorcycles
Mathias Brossard on embedded Linux and Rust
July 15, 2026:
Pascal Bakker on trusted execution, and Tom Folbrecht on his new storage service, theblobstore.com.