Appreciate the kind words!

Thanks you for sharing! slides are here 👉 what-is-liquid-cache.xiangpeng.systems

Hey Tyler 👋 welcome back! I'd be happy to chat, I work in the data systems space (database + storage + cloud) from the same group that also studies storage fault!

Project repo: github.com/XiangpengHao...

Credit goes to github.com/excalidraw/e... for making it easy😉

Here's the PR: github.com/apache/arrow...

Meanwhile, as a PhD student, I still feel frustrated comparing my systems to many ideas that seem novel but lack practical impact. That said, I find “feet on the ground, head in the clouds” research very inspiring -- it’s probably what keeps me motivated to stay in academia.

Thanks for the insightful points, Marc! I totally agree that academia is important in many areas. I'm planning a follow-up post discussing the kinds of research that are impactful and beneficial to people, and your examples strongly resonate with what I have in mind!

Thanks for sharing your perspective! It’s always helpful to hear insights from folks who’ve spent time in industry. There’s definitely room for academia to evolve, and I’m hopeful it will :)

Compile to WASM is a very interesting idea! I think Fray at some point explored this a bit, not sure about the current status

Current approaches need to replace std locks with framework provided locks, like the ones in shuttle: docs.rs/shuttle/late...

I think binary instrumentation like the one in this paper is possible, but I'm not an expert on this. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

I heard from Fray dev that it is getting a built-in interactive debugger, which visualizes what each threads is doing at a given moment, I can see it to be incredibly useful!

Yes, Loom and shuttle: github.com/awslabs/shut...

They are incredibly useful at identifying and reproducing bugs, but I find it quite hard to use them with a debugger, as lldb needs frequently jump to different stacks and I soon lost track of what's going on...

It uses Gemini free tier API to translate natural language to SQL: ai.google.dev/pricing#1_5f...