Senior Staff Research Engineer in the MongoDB Distributed Systems Research Group. Photographer, Gunks climber, Zen Buddhist. Blog: https://emptysqua.re
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
My recap of the SIGMOD 2026 database conference: SIGMOD 2026 recap: emptysqua.re/blog/sigmod-...
Weird stuff going on at the MongoDB NYC office lately....
Trip report: what I saw and did in Bengaluru/Bangalore. I'm waiting in the airport to fly home right now. emptysqua.re/blog/bengalu...
My review of "Scalable Leader Leases For Multi Consensus Groups in CockroachDB", this one was tough for me to grok. emptysqua.re/blog/review-...
No, *this* is what they took from you -- small cars with physical buttons! marc-newson.com/ford-021c-co...
TLA+ is the gold standard for specifying distributed systems, but the syntax is a bear. This isn't a problem anymore, AI can write specs for you! But you still need to understand temporal logic. Here's a 20-minute intro to TLA+ for the LLM era: emptysqua.re/blog/intro-t...
My father’s dishonesty was frustrating and disappointing to many people, but I think he got the worst of it. Here’s a dharma talk I gave to New Paltz Zen Center and Village Zendo on May 10, 2026. emptysqua.re/blog/the-kid...
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
My notes from the database conference in Bangalore.
Marc Newson has been described as one of the most influential designers of his generation. He has worked across an extremely wide range of disciplines, and his clients include some of the best-known a...
