Lian Li
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- JSUnconf3 editions2016–2018
- ContainerDays2 editions2022–2023
- OOPSLA2 editions2024–2025
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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| A Practical Guide To Inner Sourcing Your IDP - Lian Li | Platform Engineering Day Europe 2026 | 2026-03-23 |
Claim: inner sourcing—treating the IDP like an open source project—moves developers from consumers to contributors and improves adoption. Uses the platform… | ||
| Fast Client-Driven CFL-Reachability via Regularization-Based Graph Simplification | OOPSLA 2025 | 2025-10-16 |
MoYe is a regularization-based graph simplification that prunes edges that cannot lie on any CFL-reachable source-to-sink path by over-approximating the… | ||
| GitOps for the People | bit summit 2025 | 2025-09-04 |
MoneyBank migrates to OpenShift + GitOps but delivery remains slow because handoffs and compliance gates are manual. Engineers build a ticket-driven ReleaseOps… | ||
| Many Cooks, One Platform: Balancing Ownership and Contribution for the Perfect Broth | KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 | 2025-04-01 |
Built an internal developer platform for the Dutch judiciary (Evo Respra) on OpenShift 4.16 → 4.17, running across four clusters (2 dev, 2 prod) plus a… | ||
| Workshop by Lian Li about Owning the Stage | Devworld Conference 2025 | 2025-02-27 |
Eighty-six people sign up but the room has 24 seats, so the workshop focuses on theatre games and embodied exercises to build stage presence rather than slide… | ||
| Boosting the Performance of Alias-Aware IFDS Analysis with CFL-based Environment(…) | OOPSLA 2024 | 2024-10-20 |
Reinterprets access-path generation as a Context-Free Language and casts field sensitivity as an IDE problem, implements the idea in IDEDroid and compares it… | ||
| In a Land before Metrics | KCD Austria 2024 | 2024-10-08 |
Argues that metrics are always approximations and that Dora-style measurements don’t map to developer happiness, backing this with a half day outage that… | ||
| In a land before metrics | devopsdays Amsterdam 2024 | 2024-06-19 |
Argues that developer happiness is not directly measurable so teams rely on metrics like DORA and employee NPS and that AI productivity tools collect… | ||
| The DevOps Improv Session | devopsdays Eindhoven 2023 | 2023-10-11 |
Live improv exercises teach practical communication for ops teams using two staged games: three-headed consultant (one-word sequencing) and… | ||
| Systems Thinking For Dev Organisations | DevOpsDays London 2023 | 2023-09-21 |
Overview of systems thinking applied to dev orgs with concrete methods: use stocks and flows and causal maps to spot feedback loops, distinguish balancing and… | ||
| Systems Thinking for Dev Organisations - Lian Li | ContainerDays 2023 | 2023-09-11 |
Argues that systems thinking — stocks, flows, feedback loops and archetypes — gives specific levers to change developer organisations: three archetypes are… | ||
| The DevOps Improv Session | ContainerDays 2023 | 2023-09-11 |
Improvisational session that plays specific games like Three-headed DevOps consultant and Fortunately Containers, Unfortunately Kubernetes and requires… | ||
| Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Building Better Communities | Open Source Summit North America 2023 - Diversity Empowerment Summit | 2023-05-10 |
Community work centers on concrete moves: run regular meetups to seed diverse pipelines, recruit underrepresented speakers instead of relying on celebrity… | ||
| Secret Management: The Soft Way | NDC Oslo 2022 | 2022-09-26 |
Shows two concrete pipelines for getting secrets into Kubernetes and proves both work live. Option A encrypts YAML with sealed-secrets + kubeseal: cluster… | ||
| GitOps for the people | ContainerDays 2022 | 2022-09-05 |
200-engineer fintech with siloed QA, divergent dev/stage/prod stacks, and an approvals bottleneck moves to Kubernetes/OpenShift plus mandatory automated tests… | ||
| Kubernetes won't save you | Conf42 Cloud Native 2021 | 2021-04-29 |
Claim: Kubernetes often becomes an overcomplicated choice when the real blockers are cultural and organisational. Shows a concrete IoT case: a camera with… | ||
| Kubernetes won’t save you | devopsdays Amsterdam 2020 | 2020-07-09 |
Argues that Kubernetes is mainstream but not a silver bullet, and that failed cloud moves are usually cultural not technical. Describes building a microservice… | ||
| Machine Learning in the Browser with deeplearnJS | Node+JS Interactive 2018 | 2018-10-10 |
Live in-browser demo generates arbitrary-size training data of normalized 3-element RGB arrays, builds a sequential dense network with 3 inputs and 3 outputs… | ||
| Machine Learning in the browser | JSCamp 2018 | 2018-07-18 |
Builds a working client-side ML app using TensorFlow.js and WebGL to run neural nets in the browser, generating synthetic RGB → complementary RGB pairs… | ||
| Machine Learning in the Browser | JSUnconf 2018 | 2018-04-21 |
Builds a browser-side neural net with tensorflow.js (formerly deeplearn.js), generates 10,000 data points of random RGB inputs and complementary RGB targets… | ||
| Reinforcement Learning in the Browser | RuhrJS 2017 | 2017-10-14 |
Prototype Alpha2048 runs entirely in the browser, starts with synaptic then moves to reinforceJS, and plays the 4x4 2048 game (new tiles 90% 2, 10% 4)… | ||
| Alpha 2048 - Reinforcement Learning in the Browser | code.talks 2017 | 2017-09-28 |
An end-to-end reinforcement learning agent runs entirely in the browser using a JavaScript stack and an in-browser JS RL implementation that the uploader marks… | ||
| Alpha2048 | dotAI 2017 | 2017-04-25 |
Built a browser prototype called Alpha2048 that uses JavaScript libraries synaptic and reinforced.js with Q‑learning. Data collection starts from serialized… | ||
| Alpha2048 - how I taught my computer to play 1024 | JSUnconf 2017 | 2017-03-25 |
Build trains and tests a 2048 solver using JavaScript libraries rather than theory it tries a supervised classifier with synaptic then switches to temporal… | ||
| Applying The Magic Of Neural Networks | JSConf.Asia 2016 | 2016-11-25 |
A short project shows a Node.js pipeline that predicts football match outcomes from team market values, using the synaptic library to build a small feedforward… | ||
| Machine Learning with Node.js | JSUnconf 2016 | 2016-04-23 |
Builds a probabilistic football match predictor in Node.js using synaptic and a perceptron-style network (2 inputs, two hidden layers of six nodes, 3-way… | ||
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