A. Jesse Jiryu Davis

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RIP Sojourner In memory of Sojourner Truth Armstrong Davis, a singular and solitary hamster.
From Python Programmer to Distributed Systems Researcher in 10 Years Without a PhD How I wound up on MongoDB's research team.
Taming Google Scholar Alerts Instead of a daily deluge, get a weekly summary.
Gunks, June 2025 Climbing in the Gunks on June 21 and 22, 2025.
Genuine Climbing retreat for women with cancer June 2025, in the Gunks.
Opus 40 A sculpture park in Saugerties, New York, hand-built by Harvey Fite over 37 years from local bluestone.
Can We Rely On Timers For Distributed Algorithms? I think the answer is yes, and I calculate the worst-case drift.
Conformance Checking at MongoDB: Testing That Our Code Matches Our TLA+ Specs Five years ago we tried to test conformance, and only half-succeeded. Here's what happened, and the view from 2025.
MongoDB and CS Education for All, Part 2 After their first year teaching computer science to NYC public school students, how did two teachers fare?
MongoDB and CS Education for All, Part 1 In 2016 and 2017, MongoDB invested in NYC public school computer science. I photographed and reported two articles about the teachers we mentored.