qianli_cs

Hi, I am Qian Li, co-founder at DBOS. The way how hardware, software, and data interact with each other appeals to me the most. Website: https://qianli.dev/

Posts

• Show HN: Lightweight Durable Workflows Built on Postgres
  by qianli_cson 6/6/2025, 5:09 PMwith 0 comments
• Analyzing Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems
  by qianli_cson 6/5/2025, 6:22 PMwith 0 comments
• Handling Workflow Failures with Forks
  by qianli_cson 5/30/2025, 5:09 PMwith 0 comments
• CRDTs #3: Do Not Read
  by qianli_cson 5/29/2025, 9:11 PMwith 0 comments
• AI in my plasma physics research didn’t go the way I expected
  by qianli_cson 5/20/2025, 4:57 AMwith 299 comments
• Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs [pdf]
  by qianli_cson 5/16/2025, 6:24 PMwith 0 comments
• Many Faces of Ad Hoc Transactions
  by qianli_cson 5/13/2025, 5:26 PMwith 0 comments
• How to Understand That Jepsen Report
  by qianli_cson 5/6/2025, 3:55 AMwith 0 comments
• Analyzing Krazy Kode
  by qianli_cson 4/19/2025, 4:40 PMwith 1 comments
• C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
  by qianli_cson 4/13/2025, 5:37 PMwith 0 comments
• Battle of the Mallocators
  by qianli_cson 4/12/2025, 10:15 PMwith 11 comments
• Making Apps Durable with 1/10th of Code
  by qianli_cson 4/10/2025, 2:11 PMwith 0 comments
• How not to structure your DB-backed web apps: a study of performance bugs (2018) [pdf]
  by qianli_cson 4/6/2025, 8:13 PMwith 0 comments
• File Systems Unfit as Distributed Storage Back Ends (2019)
  by qianli_cson 3/30/2025, 7:03 PMwith 26 comments
• Dremel: A Decade of Interactive SQL Analysis at Web Scale (2020) [pdf]
  by qianli_cson 3/26/2025, 4:01 PMwith 0 comments
• Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1
  by qianli_cson 3/22/2025, 11:04 PMwith 0 comments
• The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
  by qianli_cson 3/20/2025, 3:37 AMwith 562 comments
• The New Three-Tier Application
  by qianli_cson 3/18/2025, 1:04 PMwith 86 comments
• ConnectorX: Accelerating Data Loading From Databases to Dataframes
  by qianli_cson 3/17/2025, 4:36 PMwith 0 comments
• Transformers Without Normalization
  by qianli_cson 3/14/2025, 2:41 PMwith 0 comments
• OLTP Through the Looking Glass 16 Years Later [pdf]
  by qianli_cson 3/9/2025, 7:50 PMwith 0 comments
• High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory (2020) [pdf]
  by qianli_cson 2/23/2025, 9:02 PMwith 0 comments
• Bottom Up Architecture
  by qianli_cson 2/20/2025, 7:07 PMwith 0 comments
• Matryoshka Quantization
  by qianli_cson 2/12/2025, 7:45 AMwith 1 comments
• There may not be aha moment in R1-Zero-like training
  by qianli_cson 2/7/2025, 5:00 AMwith 8 comments
• Flexible Infrastructure Deployment
  by qianli_cson 1/29/2025, 7:25 PMwith 0 comments
• Robotic exoskeleton helps pianists improve speed
  by qianli_cson 1/26/2025, 7:27 PMwith 0 comments
• Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Rust
  by qianli_cson 1/17/2025, 8:24 PMwith 4 comments