Five years ago we tried to test conformance, and only half-succeeded. Here's what happened, and the view from 2025.| emptysqua.re
At MongoDB, we experimented to see if we could predict each DBaaS customer’s demand fluctuations, and auto-scale them using this foreknowledge. Senior Data Scientist Matthieu Humeau and I spoke about this experiment at Data Council and NYC Systems. Here’s the video from NYC Systems, and a written version is below. --- Replica Sets MongoDB is generally deployed as a group of servers, where one is the primary and at least two are secondaries. The client sends all writes to the primary, and ...| A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
As planned, I returned from an 8-month leave and resumed work for MongoDB last week. My intention for the long break was to climb a lot, practice being afraid, get more comfortable on the wall, and have more fun climbing. My secondary goal was to read more computer science research and focus on learning, freed of daily engineering responsibilities. I accomplished the first goal and not the second, and I’m completely satisfied with that. Climbing Photo: Rita Strauss The climbing style here i...| A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
Fall 2025 Reading List (##201-210)| charap.co