Software engineer

Chuan Liu.

I build cloud infrastructure
and data systems.

From distributed systems in the cloud to search on your device, my work spans the infrastructure behind the software.

01 / Selected work

A few things I’ve helped build.

Clouds, data, and the
systems in between.

  1. Gaia Platform

    Application development & data systems

    Platform
  2. Oracle Cloud Agent

    Infrastructure for cloud compute instances

    Cloud
  3. Microsoft Linux Repositories

    Software distribution for Linux

    Infrastructure
  4. Azure HDInsight

    Big data in the cloud

    Data
  5. Hadoop on Azure and Windows

    Distributed data processing

    Data
  6. SQL Server Semantic Search

    Finding meaning in unstructured text

    Search

02 / Selected writing

A few posts on software.

The blog is in English and 中文;
these three are in English.

  1. Why Not Port Microsoft SQL Server to Linux

    Why the hard part is the organization, not the code

    2011
  2. Algorithm Analysis

    Three ways to analyze algorithms beyond big-O

    2011
  3. MADlib Paper Review

    Machine learning inside a relational database

    2014

03 / Elsewhere on this site

Notes, papers & other interests.