Dan Luu (@danluu) spoke with us about processor features, startups vs large companies, error handling, and computer science research. 

Dan's blog is danluu.com. Some posts we talked about:

• CPU features since 1980
• Working at Startups vs. Large Companies
• Recurring Postmorten Lessons
• Efficacy of Computer Science Research Areas

Dan mentioned some conference proceedings he monitors. For computer architecture:

• ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA): http://isca2016.eecs.umich.edu/
• IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprogramming & Microarchitecture (MICRO): http://www.microarch.org/
• High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA): http://www.hpcaconf.org/

For software engineering:

• International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE): http://www.icse-conferences.org/
• Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE): http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/fse2016/

He also mentioned Operating System Design and Implementation OSDI: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/byname/179