The 4th round of SIGMOD 2027 has *659* submissions. This is 2-3x more than previous years! I downloaded the abstracts & compared them against last 10yrs of SIGMOD/VLDB papers. I then evaluated them to see how writing changed since ChatGPT dropped in 2022. Many papers are clearly LLM written.

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In our SMT paper in IEEE S&P'26, it was tricky to compare Homa variants against TCP due to the lack of port-based RSS, so we resorted to multiple IP addresses. Now no such tricks are needed.

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The cost of going through the BPF bytecode is unknown right now. At the eBPF'26 workshop, Hoang Duong presented a first step toward answering this with a setup to measure the impact on the instruction count. Slides: ebpf.github.io/2026/slides/... Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Litmus tests are small concurrent programs that expose weak memory behaviors. Ali Siddiqui and Xiaoguang Wang show how #eBPF can enforce placement and timing scheduling invariants to improve the effectiveness of litmus tests. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1iU... Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

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