A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- RIP Shirley
Shirley Chisholm Armstrong Davis was indomitable until the day she died.
- Review: PolarDB-SCC: A Cloud-Native Database Ensuring Low Latency for Strongly Consistent Reads
Alibaba's cloud-native SQL DB has a clever method for reading fresh data from secondaries.
- Review: Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems: Queueing Theory in Action
Two friends and I wrote a joint review of a math textbook.
- Review: SelfTune: Tuning Cluster Managers
A 2023 paper describing a simple system for automatically configuring auto-scaling and other aspects.
- Climbing and Falling, 2
June 30 and July 1, 2023. Traditional Climbing and Mental Training Camp, a two-day climbing class taught in the Gunks by Dustin Portzline.
- Climbing and Falling
May 19, 2023. Warrior's Way Falling and Commitment, a one-day climbing class taught in the Gunks by Dustin Portzline.
- Gunks Climbing Photos
May 7, 2023. Photos I took in Irene Yee's climbing photography clinic.
- Consistency and Isolation for Python Programmers
My PyCon 2023 talk about using databases safely.
- Pseudocode Is Not Durable
Use Python: it's less ambiguous, well-known, and concise enough.
- Review: Distributed Reset
A 1994 paper describing how to bring a distributed system to a known state.