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qianli_cs

joined 9/3/22, 7:10 PM has 699 karma

• ATC/OSDI 2025 Impressions

  by qianli_cs on 7/12/25, 3:30 PM, with 0 comments

• CXL for Disaggregated Memory in Cloud-Native Databases [pdf]

  by qianli_cs on 7/6/25, 5:05 PM, with 0 comments

• Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine

  by qianli_cs on 6/28/25, 2:18 PM, with 19 comments

• Show HN: Lightweight Durable Workflows Built on Postgres

  by qianli_cs on 6/6/25, 5:09 PM, with 0 comments

• Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

  by qianli_cs on 6/5/25, 6:22 PM, with 0 comments

• Handling Workflow Failures with Forks

  by qianli_cs on 5/30/25, 5:09 PM, with 0 comments

• CRDTs #3: Do Not Read

  by qianli_cs on 5/29/25, 9:11 PM, with 0 comments

• AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected

  by qianli_cs on 5/20/25, 4:57 AM, with 299 comments

• Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs [pdf]

  by qianli_cs on 5/16/25, 6:24 PM, with 0 comments

• Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions

  by qianli_cs on 5/13/25, 5:26 PM, with 0 comments

• How to Understand That Jepsen Report

  by qianli_cs on 5/6/25, 3:55 AM, with 0 comments

• Analyzing Krazy Kode

  by qianli_cs on 4/19/25, 4:40 PM, with 1 comments

• C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)

  by qianli_cs on 4/13/25, 5:37 PM, with 0 comments

• Battle of the Mallocators

  by qianli_cs on 4/12/25, 10:15 PM, with 11 comments

• Making Apps Durable with 1/10th of Code

  by qianli_cs on 4/10/25, 2:11 PM, with 0 comments

• How not to structure your DB-backed web apps: a study of performance bugs (2018) [pdf]

  by qianli_cs on 4/6/25, 8:13 PM, with 0 comments

• File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends (2019)

  by qianli_cs on 3/30/25, 7:03 PM, with 26 comments

• Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale (2020) [pdf]

  by qianli_cs on 3/26/25, 4:01 PM, with 0 comments

• Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1

  by qianli_cs on 3/22/25, 11:04 PM, with 0 comments

• The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

  by qianli_cs on 3/20/25, 3:37 AM, with 562 comments

• The New Three-Tier Application

  by qianli_cs on 3/18/25, 1:04 PM, with 86 comments

• ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes

  by qianli_cs on 3/17/25, 4:36 PM, with 0 comments

• Transformers Without Normalization

  by qianli_cs on 3/14/25, 2:41 PM, with 0 comments

• OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later [pdf]

  by qianli_cs on 3/9/25, 7:50 PM, with 0 comments

• High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory (2020) [pdf]

  by qianli_cs on 2/23/25, 9:02 PM, with 0 comments

• Bottom Up Architecture

  by qianli_cs on 2/20/25, 7:07 PM, with 0 comments

• Matryoshka Quantization

  by qianli_cs on 2/12/25, 7:45 AM, with 1 comments

• There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training

  by qianli_cs on 2/7/25, 5:00 AM, with 8 comments

• Flexible Infrastructure Deployment

  by qianli_cs on 1/29/25, 7:25 PM, with 0 comments

• Robotic exoskeleton helps pianists improve speed

  by qianli_cs on 1/26/25, 7:27 PM, with 0 comments

• Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Rust

  by qianli_cs on 1/17/25, 8:24 PM, with 4 comments

• Key-Value Memory in the Brain

  by qianli_cs on 1/15/25, 4:40 PM, with 0 comments

• Infrastructure Vendors Are in a Tough Spot

  by qianli_cs on 1/14/25, 3:32 PM, with 0 comments

• Use of Time in Distributed Databases

  by qianli_cs on 1/12/25, 6:21 PM, with 0 comments