A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- The Polyglot's Dilemma: Conformance Testing a Dozen Specs in as Many Languages
At MongoDB we implement the same protocols in many programming languages. How do we test that all the implementations match the specs?
- Let's Not Waste Time on Excessive Benchmarking
Database research papers keep adding benchmarks every year, crowding out fundamental new research: stats from analyzing 800 published papers.
- LeaseGuard: The Movie
A half-hour talk about our enhancement to the Raft consensus protocol that strengthens Raft's consistency guarantees and time-to-recovery.
- Deduplicate Your Zotero Library: A Plugin For The Forgetful Scholar
Find all the papers you added multiple times.
- YCSB Is Obsolete, We Need New Benchmarks
Closed loop benchmarks are too polite, they don't push systems past their limits.
- LeaseGuard: Raft Leases Done Right!
A new Raft enhancement for fast, consistent reads.
- How I Write a Related Work Section with Zotero and Overleaf
The worst part of writing a research paper, made less bad.
- Can We Rely On Timers For Distributed Algorithms?
I think the answer is yes, and I calculate the worst-case drift.
- Predictive Scaling in MongoDB Atlas, an Experiment
At MongoDB, we experimented to see if we could predict each DBaaS customer's demand fluctuations, and auto-scale them using this foreknowledge.
- Paper Review: C5: Cloned Concurrency Control that Always Keeps Up
A multicore replication algorithm.