This makes sense, especially with the move of OSDI to being annual, and NSDI accepting more and more general systems-y work (e.g. we published the Firecracker paper at NSDI, which wouldn't have made sense even 5 years earlier). ATC was left in a difficult niche, but still a valuable venue for "hackier" systems work, industry systems papers of the less quantitative kind, and a few others.
I'd love to see OSDI evolve to accept more of this work, and look at the ATC work that has stood the test of time and accept more work like that. Maybe SOSP and Eurosys too. I bet USENIX is going to figure this out - they're generally a smart and well-run organization.
Fun fact: we won best industry paper at ATC'23 for "On-demand container loading in AWS Lambda" (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/brooker). I was super happy with it as a paper and got a ton of good feedback on it. About six months earlier, it'd been desk-rejected by the chair of another systems conference who asked that we don't submit such low-quality work to them.
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This makes sense, especially with the move of OSDI to being annual, and NSDI accepting more and more general systems-y work (e.g. we published the Firecracker paper at NSDI, which wouldn't have made sense even 5 years earlier). ATC was left in a difficult niche, but still a valuable venue for "hackier" systems work, industry systems papers of the less quantitative kind, and a few others.
I'd love to see OSDI evolve to accept more of this work, and look at the ATC work that has stood the test of time and accept more work like that. Maybe SOSP and Eurosys too. I bet USENIX is going to figure this out - they're generally a smart and well-run organization.
Fun fact: we won best industry paper at ATC'23 for "On-demand container loading in AWS Lambda" (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc23/presentation/brooker). I was super happy with it as a paper and got a ton of good feedback on it. About six months earlier, it'd been desk-rejected by the chair of another systems conference who asked that we don't submit such low-quality work to them.