I’m a senior staff engineer at MongoDB in New York City, specializing in C++ and distributed systems. I wrote Motor, the async MongoDB Python driver, and I’ve contributed to the MongoDB C Driver, PyMongo, asyncio, Python, and Tornado. I studied at the International Center for Photography and I practice at the Village Zendo. You can read more about me or find me on Twitter.
Latest Articles
- Aragog: Scalable Runtime Verification of Shardable Networked Systems
An efficient invariant checker for network protocols.
- Pegasus: Tolerating Skewed Workloads in Distributed Storage with In-Network Coherence Directories
A clever research paper describing a rack-sized distributed KV store.
- RIP Gertrude
Gertrude Berg Armstrong Davis was an industrious homemaker and affectionate sister.
- Give Something Away to a Stranger
Rich countries and drug firms are acting selfishly during the pandemic. Selfishness is natural, but we can strengthen our universal goodwill through training.
- Nighttime meditation in East River Park
November 28, 2020. Members of the Village Zendo meditating outdoors at night in Manhattan's East River Park.
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Selected Articles
- API Evolution the Right Way
Ten covenants that responsible library authors keep with their users.
- The Meteor
What if you knew you had 30 minutes to live? Would you want to be awakened?
- Embed Interns In Your Team, Don't Assign Them Science Fair Projects
Interns are much more likely to succeed if they work as regular team members, doing a real professional's daily work.
- Praxis Housing: Michael
When you're in an atmosphere that's closed in, with noise in the hallway, no circulation, you start feeling like that room.
- Server Discovery And Monitoring In PyMongo, Perl, And C Our drivers' algorithms to discover and stay connected to your server, replica set, or sharded cluster.
- March To Triumph As A Mentor
I've failed as a mentor, and succeeded. Here are the warning signs I watch for, and the steps I take to design a mentorship for success.
- Python C Extensions And mod_wsgi If you use mod_wsgi, or you're the author of a Python C extension, it's time for you to learn how they interact.
- Ordinary Zen
A portrait series of Zen practitioners.
- Optimizing MongoDB Compound Indexes
How to find the best multicolumn index for a complex query.
Projects
- libbson and libmongoc, the MongoDB C Driver libraries.
- Motor: A full-featured non-blocking MongoDB driver for Tornado.
- PyMongo: I help maintain the standard MongoDB driver for Python.
- GreenletProfiler: A performance profiler that groks greenlets and Gevent.
- A queue implementation for
asyncio
in the Python 3.4 standard library. - I do portraits of Lower East Siders, residents of transitional housing, and American Buddhists.