Qian LIN

Research Engineer
Data Platform Team
ByteDance, Singapore

Email: q-i-a-n.l-i-n AT bytedance.com (removing - and replacing AT with @)

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Research Interest

Database
Real-time data processing
Distributed systems

Resources

Teaching Assistant

Semester 2, 2013/14: CS3223 Database Systems Implementation
Semester 1, 2015/16: MSBA Basic Programming Workshop: Introduction to Java Programming

Links

The Illustrated Guide to a PhD (by Matt Might)
Tips for a Good Conference Talk (by Jennifer Widom)
How to Write a Great Research Paper (by Simon Peyton Jones)
LaTeX Usage Notes (by Eddie Kohler)
How to read a paper: Focus questions and Survival kit (by Tim Roughgarden)
Readings in Database Systems (a.k.a. the "Red Book") (by Peter Bailis, Joseph M. Hellerstein, and Michael Stonebraker)
Readings in Databases (by Reynold Xin)
Top Publication Venues in Computer Science (by Andrew Myers)
How to be a Programmer (by Robert L. Read)
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First? (by Carl Cheo)
Linux Storage Stack Diagram (by Werner Fischer)
Inside the Linux Kernel (by Daniel Stori)
Linux Performance Tools (by Brendan Gregg)
The 5 Levels of Logging
Scala Collections Tips and Tricks (by Pavel Fatin)
The Computer Science of Concurrency: The Early Years (by Leslie Lamport)
The World Beyond Batch: Streaming 101 (by Tyler Akidau)
The Log: What Every Software Engineer Should Know About Real-Time Data's Unifying Abstraction (by Jay Kreps)
What We Talk About When We Talk About Distributed Systems (by Alvaro Videla)
The Traditional RDBMS Wisdom is (Almost Certainly) All Wrong (by Michael Stonebraker)
Systems Benchmarking Crimes (by Gernot Heiser)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan M. Turing)

Exponential is a monster.
Linear is a human being.
Logarithmic is a fairy.
O(1) is a magician.
No one can be the god because of the hidden constant.