Articles by shenli3514
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IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf] (github.com/iquestlab)

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The ORM for LLM (github.com/shenli)

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Manus 1.5: Build full-stack web apps (manus.im)

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Run OpenAI Models Directly on Databricks (databricks.com)

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Databricks CTO's keynote at VLDB 2025 [pdf] (vldb.org)

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BVP: Mastering product-market fit- A detailed playbook for AI founders (bvp.com)

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Spec-Driven Development Is the Future of Software Engineering (medium.com/shenli3514)

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Show HN: Specification-Driven Development for OpenAI Codex (github.com/shenli)

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Clay raises $100M at $3.1B valuation (clay.com)

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Coze Studio: all-in-one AI agent development tool (github.com/coze-dev)

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BVP – Roadmap: AI systems of action (bvp.com)

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Why Fresh Data, SQL, and Unified Platforms Are Your Competitive Edge for AI Apps (pingcap.com)

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Building a Distributed Cache for S3 (clickhouse.com)

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AI agents in 2025 – what everyone's getting wrong (reddit.com)

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Migrating from Postgres to CockroachDB (engineering.squarespace.com)

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Distributed SQL's Moment Has Arrived: How TiDB Is Leading the Way (sanjmo.medium.com)

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Migrating to Postgres (usemotion.com)

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DeepSeek-R2 (deepseek.ai)

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Cursor CTO on Scaling Infrastructure [video] (youtube.com)

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Plaid's Journey from AWS Aurora to TiDB (plaid.com)

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Clay's Path to Product-Market Fit (firstround.com)

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Bolt.new raises $105.5M Series B from Emergence, GV (twitter.com/boltdotnew)

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Clay raises $40M at a $1.25B valuation (clay.com)

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Mistral's IPO Plan (businessinsider.com)

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Sonar: Perplexity's API (perplexity.ai)

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VLLM 2024 Retrospective and 2025 Vision (vllm.ai)

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OpenAI's Realtime API Agents Demo (github.com/openai)

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21st: NPM for design engineers – marketplace of shadcn/UI-based components (github.com/rorkai)

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Devin's Prompting Guidance (devin.ai)

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AI Coding tools are great but not perfect (twitter.com/0xorkward)

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Mistral's new model: Codestral 25.01 - new SOTA coding model, #1 on LMSYS (mistral.ai)

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A16Z: Building a $20B+ open-source Business with MongoDB's Eliot Horowitz (a16z.com)

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Christmas and New Year message generator with AI (mywriter.app)

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Model Context Protocol servers and tools (mcphub.ai)

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Perplexity and You.com: The AI Search Before ChatGPT Search (yourdomain.com)

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Show HN: Turned an HN post about PostgreSQL into a podcast using NotebookLM (notebooklm.google.com)

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Perplexity Launched Internal Knowledge Search (perplexity.ai)

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Clickpy – ClickHouse's demo product: Analytics for PyPI packages (clickhouse.com)

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Replit's Path to Product-Market Fit–The $1B Side Project (firstround.com)

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Postgres Meets Analytics: CDC from Neon to ClickHouse via PeerDB (neon.tech)

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How LLMs Are Reshaping Data Systems (yourdomain.com)

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AI distills top podcasts into key takeaways (tldl.io)

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Code Image Generator (gitdevtool.com)

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AI-Powered Git Command Generator (gitdevtool.com)

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AI-powered tool to create tailored social media content for your GitHub repos (gitdevtool.com)

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The Power of GitHub Profiles (gitdevtool.com)

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Database Startups (transactional.blog)

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GitHub Project SEO Guidance (gitdevtool.com)

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A cool toolkit for GitHub repo maintainer (gitdevtool.com)

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Character.ai Entered into an Agreement with Google (character.ai)

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From HBase to TiDB: Pinterest's Evolution in Data Storage (medium.com/pinterest-engineering)

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The Guide to Crafting an Effective Readme for Your Open-Source Project (readme101.com)

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Why Pinterest adopted a Distributed SQL database that ended up replacing HBase (medium.com/pinterest-engineering)

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Mistral AI Non-Production License (mistral.ai)

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(some) good corporate engineering blogs are written (danluu.com)

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The decoupled storage and compute architecture of Elasticsearch (elastic.co)

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Use LLM to monitor and analyze Grafana dashboards (github.com/aws-samples)

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The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems (bair.berkeley.edu)

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Mixtral 8x22B Model (twitter.com/mistralai)

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Architecture decisions in Neon, a serverless Postgres service (neon.tech)

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What is Multi-Tenant Data Management and Why do you need it? (medium.com/shenli3514)

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NotesGPT: Record voice notes and transcribe, summarize, and get tasks (github.com/nutlope)

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OpenAI Hits $2B Revenue Milestone (usnews.com)

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Practical Deep Learning for Coders (fast.ai)

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Fine-Tuning or Retrieval – Microsoft (arxiv.org)

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PlanetScale deprecates its serverless DBaaS offering (planetscale.com)

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A library that allows for creating autonomous AI agents in Python (github.com/fetchai)

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Perplexity's high bar for UX in the age of AI (mttmr.com)

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Pinecone's New Serverless Architecture (pinecone.io)

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Distributed SQL Database Internals (5) – Scheduling (medium.com/shenli3514)

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Distributed SQL Database Internals (4) – SQL Engine (medium.com/shenli3514)

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Building Pinterest's new wide column database using RocksDB (medium.com/pinterest-engineering)

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Building a Distributed Storage Engine (medium.com/shenli3514)

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The State of Developer Ecosystem 2023 – From jetbrains (jetbrains.com)

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Bigtable is still supporting some critical workloads in Google (cloud.google.com)

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SQL Murder Mystery (knightlab.com)

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Building Systems with the ChatGPT API – Free Course from Andrew Ng and OpenAI (deeplearning.ai)

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Navigating the MySQL Wire-Compatible Database Landscape (medium.com/shenli3514)

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The Evolution of Cloud: From Raw Infra to the Serverless Application Cloud (diagrid.io)

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Product Market Fit is not only about a great product (brianbalfour.com)

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Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2M bill that caused it to quit the public cloud (theregister.com)

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2023 State of Open Source Report (openlogic.com)

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Airtable's Path to Product-Market Fit – Lessons for Building Horizontal Products (firstround.com)

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Signs that a Startup is Going Bad (swyx.io)

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Simplify Relational Database and Elasticsearch Architecture with TiDB (medium.com/shenli3514)

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Do Things That Don't Scale – Paul Graham (paulgraham.com)

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How to write an effective GPT-3 prompt (zapier.com)

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2023 Is the Year of _________ (tomtunguz.com)

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Distributed SQL Database Internals (1) – Foreword

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Supercharge your modern SaaS application (2/3)– How could TiDB help

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Key considerations of designing a scalable SaaS application