The author defines systems research as: > What is Systems Research these days? Web caches, web servers, file systems, network packet delays, all that stuff. Pe

The author defines systems research as: > What is Systems Research these days? Web caches, web servers, file systems, network packet delays, all that stuff. Performance, peripherals, and applications, but not kernels or even user-level applications. This seems false. DBMS and OS research is pretty interesting today. Look into Andy Pavlo or Onur Mutlu's courses and students to get pointers.