Dharma Talks

I occasionally speak at the Village Zendo about Zen Buddhism. You can:

• Listen to my talks and read transcripts here
• Subscribe to my podcast in iTunes
• Podcast feed URL: http://emptysquare.libsyn.com/rss

Past Highlights

NYC Systems, New York, October 2024.

• Predictive Auto-Scaling in MongoDB Atlas.

Data Council, Austin, March 2024.

• Predictive Auto-Scaling in MongoDB Atlas.

PyCon, Salt Lake City, April 2023.

• Consistency and Isolation for Python Programmers.

PyCon, Salt Lake City, May 2022.

• Why Should Async Get All The Love?: Advanced Control Flow With Threads

Nerd Nite, October 2021.

• How Can a Lump of Simple Neurons Produce Consciousness? Let’s Learn From a Math Game Called “Life”.

TLA+ Community Event, St. Louis, September 2021.

• Interactive TLA+ with Samyukta Lanka

TLA+ Community Event, Online, October 2020.

• eXtreme Modelling in Practice

VLDB, Online, September 2020.

• eXtreme Modelling in Practice

PyCon, Cleveland, May 2019.

• API Evolution the Right Way

ConFoo, Montréal, March 2019.

• API Evolution the Right Way
• Verify Your Distributed System with Black Pipe Testing

PyTennessee, Nashville, February 2019.

• Keynote: Choose the Adventurous Route: The Career Track for Non-Managers

PyCon Canada, Toronto, November 2018.

• API Evolution the Right Way

PyTennessee, Nashville, February 2018.

• Why Generosity Turns To Rage, and What To Do About It
• What To Expect When You’re Expiring: Safety Rules For __del__

Global Diversity CFP Workshop, February 3, 2018.

• Writing Winning Proposals for Tech Conferences, sponsored by PyLadies

PloneConf, Barcelona, October 2017.

• Keynote: Why Generosity Turns To Rage, and What To Do About It

PyCon, Portland, May 2017.

• Grok the GIL: Write Fast And Thread-Safe Python.

MongoDB World, New York, June 2016.

• Smart Strategies for Resilient Applications.

Open Source Bridge, Portland, June 2016.

• Black Pipe Testing.
• March to Triumph as a Mentor.

PyCon, Portland, May 2016.

• Write an Excellent Programming Blog.

“Code” Podcast

• Discussion of event loops and coroutines, with Saúl Ibarra Corretgé and Andrey Salomatin

SoCal Linux Expo, Los Angeles, January 2016.

• How Do Python Coroutines Work?

Open Source Bridge, Portland Oregon, June 2015.

• Cat-herd’s Crook: Enforcing Standards in 10 Programming Languages with Samantha Ritter
• How Do Python Coroutines Work?

MongoDB World, New York City, June 2015.

• MongoDB Drivers And High Availability, about server discovery and monitoring

PyCon, Montréal, April 2015.

• Eventually Correct: Testing Async Apps.
• “Python Profiling: The Guts And The Glory”

Talk Python To Me Podcast, April 2015

• Episode #2: Python and MongoDB

OSCON, Portland Oregon, July 2014.

• “What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It?”

Open Source Bridge, Portland Oregon, June 2014

• Write An Excellent Programming Blog.

MongoDB World, New York City, June 2014.

• The Weather of the Century. (Start watching around minute 7.)

PyCon, Montréal, April 2014.

• What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It?

PyCON APAC, Taipei, May 2014.

• Python Profiling: The Guts & The Glory.

Open Source Bridge, Portland Oregon, June 2013

• What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It?