A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- The MongoDB Versioned API
For MongoDB 5.0, I designed a new stable API that permits you to upgrade without code changes.
- Paper review: Strong and Efficient Consistency with Consistency-Aware Durability
Don't wait for data to be durable when you write it, wait before you read.
- July 4, 2021
People watching NYC fireworks from the FDR highway.
- How To Understand Non-Self: Buddhism And Conway's Game Of Life
John Conway's Game of Life is a math puzzle that gives us insights into the Buddha's teaching of anatman.
- Review: The Scout Mindset
Julia Galef's book points out the dangers of motivated reasoning, and encourages us to be skeptical of ourselves.
- Paper review: Paxos vs Raft
Which consensus algorithm will win?
- Get a Coach for your PyCon 2021 Talk
A speaking coach will help you make make your PyCon video polished, convincing, and fun.
- 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.