#Austin Systems Programming
We're a collection of programmers, engineers and technologists living in Austin, TX. We meet once a month to learn about systems programming. To join us,
click here.
#Schedule
Our next meetup will be
Wednesday October 15, 6pm-8pm, at the
Riversouth building
(401 South 1st St, Suite 1155, 78704). The building has $5/hour parking, and there's plenty of other parking nearby, as well as bus stops and bike lanes. We'll meet
on the 11th floor.
If you'd like to attend, please
RSVP.
Schedule:
- 6:00pm: Doors open, pizza is served (courtesy of our sponsor
Base Power Company)
- 6:30pm: Sean Chambers on audio programming
- 7:00pm: Joey Buiteweg on Cloudflare Network Interconnect
- 7:30pm: Talks conclude. Guests all tell themselves "wow, what amazing talks, I'm so glad I came," and chat.
- 8:00pm: Venue closes, so we leave and walk to
Aussie's Grill & Bar
If you're interested in:
- Giving a 20 minute presentation (with 5 minutes for questions)
- Sponsoring (i.e. buying pizza, which gets you a 5 minute intro before or after the talks)
- Having your office host the event
- Filming the talks for YouTube
then please
let us know.
#About
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.
We also have a
discord server. If the invitation has expired, just
let me know.
#Past meetups
- 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
#Kindred spirits