- Dorothy and Mae
Our new Chinese dwarf hamsters.
- Announcing libbson and libmongoc 1.3.0-beta0
MongoDB 3.2 features, many fixes and improvements in GridFS, better findAndModify API.
- Tech Talks Are Campfires: Jesse's Three Reasons You Should Speak At PyCon
A talk about software doesn't have to be a tour de force. It's just the campfire we gather around so we can be together.
- Motor 0.5 Beta: asyncio, async and await, simple aggregation
My async driver for MongoDB now supports asyncio, and allows "async" and "await" in Python 3.5. Collection.aggregate() is more concise.
- Village Zendo Portraits, Part II
Photographs of Zen practitioners at the July and August 2015 meditation retreat.
- This Blog Runs MongoDB 3.2 rc2
I'm dogfooding the latest release candidate.
- Test MongoDB Failure Scenarios With MockupDB
Fourth in my "black pipe testing" series. How do you test your MongoDB application's reaction to database failures, hangs, and disconnects?
- PyMongo 3.1 Works Around A Funny Performance Flaw In Python 2
PyMongo 3.1 implements performance monitoring, a new GridFS API, and I worked around a flaw that consumes your idle CPU.
- Village Zendo Portraits
July and August 2015, portraits of Village Zendo members during the summer meditation retreat.
- Tiny Frog
August 21, 2015. A tiny frog, on the porch of the Grail Center during the Village Zendo's summer ango.