A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- 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.
- Review: Cornus: Atomic Commit for a Cloud DBMS with Storage Disaggregation
Some two-phase commit optimizations for cloud storage.
- I'm Tithing Ten Percent of My Income to Effective Charities
For now, I'm donating to GiveWell Top Charities Fund.
- Review: Paxos Quorum Leases: Fast Reads Without Sacrificing Writes
A Paxos variant that speeds up linearizable reads in geo-distributed clusters.
- Village Zendo's Winter 2022 Meditation Retreat
Photos from our Zen retreat at Garrison Institute.
- Paper Review: Rex: Replication at the Speed of Multi-core
Faster replication through the magic of partial order.