Stories by qianli_cs

Elements of System Design

What I Learned about Gardening from My PhD in Computer Science

ATC/OSDI 2025 Impressions

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

Sirius: A GPU-native SQL engine

Show HN: Lightweight Durable Workflows Built on Postgres

Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Handling Workflow Failures with Forks

CRDTs #3: Do Not Read

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

Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs [pdf]

Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions

How to Understand That Jepsen Report

Analyzing Krazy Kode

C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)

Battle of the Mallocators

Making Apps Durable with 1/10th of Code

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

File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends (2019)

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

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