SIGMOD 2026 Recap

This is one of the two top database research conferences (the other is VLDB). Our paper LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right was accepted, and I was excited to go present it, especially because this year the conference was in Bengaluru/Bangalore. I haven&rsquo;t been to India in 20 years . I prepended a trip to Nepal so I could spend time outside in a cooler part of the subcontinent, and I spent a…