A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- Paper Review: E-Store, P-Store, and Elastic Database Systems
A PhD thesis and two papers about reactive and predictive autoscaling.
- Paper Review: 1Pipe
A super-low latency protocol with causal consistency and total order, for cutting-edge data centers.
- 244 Days Off
I'm going on sabbatical from MongoDB until December.
- Multi-Paxos in Python, tested with Jepsen
A 2-week toy project to learn a famous algorithm and try out a distributed systems test framework.
- Eye-Closing Ceremony at the Village Zendo
Covering the statue of Manjusri and desanctifying the space, in preparation for moving to the zendo's new location.
- Cleaning Up Rikers Island
Photos and story: faith leaders and incarcerated boys work side by side to repaint a youth jail.
- Paper review: Scaling Large Production Clusters with Partitioned Synchronization
A clever algorithm for reducing conflicts in a distributed task scheduler.
- Current and Future Tools for Interactive TLA+
A talk I gave at the 2021 TLA+ conference with Samy Lanka.
- Paper Review: Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur (of Backus-Naur form) wrote that programmers' main job is not coding, but building a theory of the problem and solution.
- Coaching For All 2021 PyGotham Speakers
Opera singer Melissa Collom will help you give a terrific talk.