A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages At MongoDB we implement the same protocols in many programming languages. How do we test that all the implementations match the specs?
Let's Not Waste Time on Excessive Benchmarking Database research papers keep adding benchmarks every year, crowding out fundamental new research: stats from analyzing 800 published papers.
Night Climbing 2 Another after-dark climbing party at the Mac Wall in the Gunks.
Silks Performing with aerial silks suspended from the Near Trapps cliff in the Gunks.
Night Climbing An after-dark climbing party at the Mac Wall in the Gunks.
New Paltz Zen Center's First Shuso Hossen Ceremony For the first time at our Zen temple, a member was promoted to Senior Zen Student and gave her first dharma talk.
Keep the Dharma Wheel Rolling The symbols, rituals, and language of Buddhism goes back 5000 years or more. We should both maintain and innovate these traditions.
SIGMOD 2026 Recap My notes from the database conference in Bangalore.
Bengaluru Trip report of a week in India's tech capital.
Review: Scalable Leader Leases For Multi Consensus Groups in CockroachDB A difficult paper about a real cloud database's complex and evolving architecture.