About us
This Meetup group supports the SF Bay ACM Chapter. You can join the actual SF Bay Chapter by coming to a meeting - most meetings are free, and our membership is only $20/year !
The chapter has both educational and scientific purposes:
- the science, design, development, construction, languages, management and applications of modern computing.
- communication between persons interested in computing.
- cooperation with other professional groups
Our official bylaws will be available soon at the About Us page on our web site. See below for out Code of Conduct.
Videos of past meetings can be found at http://www.youtube.com/user/sfbayacm
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http://www.sfbayacm.org/
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Article IX: Code of Conduct - from the ACM Professional Chapter Code of Conduct
Harassment or hostile behavior is unwelcome, including speech that intimidates,creates discomfort, or interferes with a person’s participation or opportunity for participation, in a Chapter meeting or Chapter event.Harassment in any form, including but not limited to harassment based on alienage or citizenship, age, color, creed, disability, marital status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth- and pregnancy-related medical conditions, race, religion, sex, gender,veteran status, sexual orientation or any other status protected by laws in which the Chapter meeting or Chapter event is being held, will not be tolerated. Harassment includes the use of abusive or degrading language, intimidation, stalking, harassing photography or recording,inappropriate physical contact, sexual imagery and unwelcome sexualattention. A response that the participant was “just joking,” or “teasing,”or being “playful,” will not be accepted.2. Anyone witnessing or subject to unacceptable behavior should notify a chapter officer or ACM Headquarters.3. Individuals violating these standards may be sanctioned or excluded from further participation at the discretion of the Chapter officers or responsible committee members.
Upcoming events
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From Silent Data Failures to Enforceable CI/CD Gates
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, US-In Continuous Integration(CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
Hybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A.
https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92575634168?pwd=VqxYn5UUirU24bLGbdKOOd210g9aHu.1
Join via YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/live/KJaHDKLfBMUAGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBay ACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
Continuous Integration (CI) is the practice of frequently merging code changes into a shared repository, triggering automated builds and tests to detect conflicts and errors early. Continuous Deployment (CD) is an extension of this process that automatically releases validated code changes directly to the production environment without manual intervention.Talk Description:
Traditional CI pipelines answer whether code builds and tests pass, but data pipelines can deploy successfully while producing incorrect data. This session presents four enforceable gates organized by the defects they catch: transformation correctness, cross-system integration, contract compliance, and production observability. It explains which gates should block merges, which should block deployments, and how production incidents should become lower-layer regression tests. Examples use Spark, Kafka, CDC, and lakehouse failure modes.Speaker Bio:
Kunal Jain, Software Engineer 3 at Adobe. I build and operate large-scale data platforms and hold a Master of Software Engineering in Scalable Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. I previously spoke at STAREAST 2026.
Links: https://kunal-jain.com | https://linkedin.com/in/kunalpjain---
Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/33 attendees
Building the Production Infrastructure Your Agents Actually Need
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom
If you want to join discussion remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
https://acm-org.zoom.us/ will be provided before 7:00pm of the event date. RSVP to get the link.AGENDA
6:30 pre-sign in to test and chat
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 speaker presentation starts
8:15 - 8:30 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion in person at VRP
Abstract:
Remember when everyone rushed to ship microservices without service discovery, circuit breakers, or tracing? AI agents are in that exact "wild west" phase right now. Everyone is building them; very few are thinking about the infrastructure underneath.Drawing from real-world experience deploying production agents across 120+ microservices, this talk bypasses the basic tutorials and maps out the concrete stack that’s actually emerging:
- Tiered Memory & Context: Why basic RAG isn't enough, and how agents need to manage short-term, long-term, and episodic memory.
The Observability Crisis: You can't `tail -f` an agent. We'll look at tracing reasoning chains, confidence signals, and execution paths.
The Testing Gap: How to unit test non-deterministic behavior and catch regressions before your users do.
Whether you're struggling with single vs. multi-agent orchestration or just trying to keep your agent from hallucinating its budget away, this talk draws direct parallels to how we eventually fixed the microservices mess—and calls out what’s still painfully missing.
Speaker Bio:
Uday Kanagala is a Principal Software Architect at Navan (formerly TripActions) with over 13 years of experience in the tech industry. He is a strong proponent of immutable infrastructure, event-driven architectures, and building highly scalable cloud systems. Throughout his career, he has successfully helped organizations grow, scale, and maintain complex multi-repository infrastructures. In addition to his foundational work in cloud architecture, Uday is actively engaged in the intersection of software engineering and Artificial Intelligence. His recent research and development focus on AI agent frameworks, autonomous architectural governance, and the practical implementation of AI-native enterprise systems.Recent Publications:
https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813233
https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813187
https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813195https://twitter.com/udaybhanuprasad
http://www.linkedin.com/in/udaybhanuprasad---
Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.
As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/23 attendees
A Priority Queue Became the Backbone of Meta's AI Infrastructure
Valley Research Park, 319 North Bernardo Avenue, Mountain View, CA, USHybrid event: In-person, Zoom and YouTube
If you want to join remotely, you can submit questions via Zoom Q&A. The zoom link:
Zoom (updated 6:55 pm)
https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/96722167486?pwd=Z8KPqxueHqb9syVRxriwGujYGUXjnm.1
Join via YouTube:AGENDA
6:30 Door opens, food and networking (we invite honor system contributions)
7:00 SFBayACM upcoming events, introduce the speaker
7:15 Speaker presents.
8:30 - 8:45 finish, depending on Q&AJoin SF Bay ACM Chapter for an insightful discussion on:
### Abstract & Overview
Almost every asynchronous action at Meta passes through a single system most people have never heard of. The Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS), a fully managed, horizontally scalable priority queue, moves close to a trillion items per day for 300+ engineering teams, and it has become critical infrastructure for AI at Meta's scale. Async LLM inference, Llama serving, GenAI image generation, and AI compute demand control all ride on it.
This talk traces how a queue originally built to absorb massive backlogs and prioritize work across highly heterogeneous producers and consumers grew into the reliability layer beneath Meta's AI stack. It is an impact story rather than a feature tour: how one system came to serve hundreds of teams without them stepping on each other, how it keeps the most important work moving under enormous load, and how it evolved from isolated regional deployments into a globally distributed service that delivers region-level disaster recovery in seconds with zero client-visible downtime. The finale looks at how that same queue now acts as a control plane for shaping AI compute demand.### Speaker biography:
Jasmit Kaur Saluja is a software engineer at Meta Platforms, where she builds large-scale distributed systems powering products used by billions of people. She is the technical lead of the Facebook Ordered Queueing Service (FOQS), a globally distributed, disaster-ready priority queue processing roughly one trillion items daily, which backs Meta AI's infrastructure at scale. She designed and scaled FOQS, including its cross-region failover architecture, co-presented the work at the Systems @Scale conference, and it is featured on Meta's Engineering Blog. Earlier, I co-authored "vNFS: Maximizing NFS Performance with Compounds and Vectorized I/O," presented at USENIX FAST '17.
Here is her presentatio at Systems @Scale on making a distributed `priority queue` disaster ready:
https://atscaleconference.com/events/systems-scale-fall-2021/?tab=2&item=11linkedin.com/in/jasmit-kaur-saluja
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Valley Research Park is a coworking research campus of 104,000 square feet hosting 60+ life science and technology companies. VRP has over 100 dry labs, wet labs, and high power labs sized from 125-15,000 square feet. VRP manages all of the traditional office elements: break rooms, conference rooms, outdoor dining spaces, and recreational spaces.As a plug-and-play lab space, once companies have secured their next milestone and are ready to expand, VRP has 100+ labs ready to expand into.
https://www.valleyresearchpark.com/13 attendees
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