Independent · Distributed Systems

Deep engineering talks, right here in Seattle.

Seattle Systems is a community-run meetup focused on distributed systems - algorithms, architecture, reliability, and the hard problems between. Company-neutral, practitioner-friendly.

What we're about

Open, technical, and welcoming to practitioners of all backgrounds.

Real-world depth

We focus on distributed systems in practice: consistency, consensus, CAP tradeoffs, observability, data movement, fault tolerance, and performance at scale.

Community first

Run by engineers for engineers - bringing together students, VCs, managers, founders, and researchers across the Seattle area.

Company-neutral

No sales decks. Speakers share designs, incidents, and lessons learned so we can all build more resilient systems.

Why the focus on systems?

Distributed systems are where theory meets production. We dig into the trade-offs behind real services: latency budgets, backpressure, replication strategies, and failure modes - the details that decide whether systems bend or break.

Typical topics

  • Compilers, parsers, VMs, profiling, and IDEs
  • Databases, networking, and large-scale infrastructure
  • Formal methods and verification
  • Browsers, kernel development, and security

Upcoming events

Talks are free. RSVP required when seats are limited.

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