I'm a software engineer at Datadog in New York. I previously worked at Bluecore, fixed interesting bugs at Twitter, and taught a database class at Columbia as an adjunct. I was a co-founder and CTO of Mitro, a password manager for groups and organizations, along with Vijay Pandurangan and Adam Hilss. Before that, I earned a Ph. D. from MIT, researching distributed OLTP databases with Sam Madden. Even earlier in my life, I worked at Google in New York for a bit more than a year, and I was a graduate and undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo. I am grudgingly on Mastodon, LinkedIn, and GitHub.

Recent Posts

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• Setenv is not Thread Safe and C Doesn't Want to Fix It [ 2023-November-19 ]
• Random Load Balancing is Unevenly Distributed [ 2023-August-29 ]
• Nanosecond timestamp collisions are common [ 2023-July-20 ]
• How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? [ 2023-July-16 ]
• The C Standard Library Function isspace() Depends on Locale [ 2023-June-06 ]
• Huge Pages are a Good Idea [ 2023-January-16 ]
• Replicating Database Changes to a Message Queue is Tricky [ 2022-December-12 ]
• Go: Functional options are slow [ 2022-May-23 ]

Popular Software and Articles

• The Four Month Bug: JVM statistics cause garbage collection pauses (how I found it) [ 2015-March-24 ]
• How to Use UTF-8 with Python [ 2005-October-01 ]
• Using Unicode in C/C++ [ 2006-April-15 ]
• Implementing a Thread Library on Linux [ 2003-December-10 ]
• Getting Starting With ns2 [ 2005-February-18 ]
• Efficient Java I/O: byte[], ByteBuffers, and OutputStreams [ 2009-October-21 ]
• Farewell to MIT [ 2011-October-26 ]

Employment History

• Datadog (2020-present)
• Bluecore (2016-2020)
• Twitter (2014-2016)
• Mitro aka Lectorius Inc (2012-2014)
• Infix (2011-2012)
• MIT CSAIL database group (2007-2011)
• Google (2006-2007)

Research Projects

• H-Store: A database system for extremely high throughput transaction processing.
• Relational Cloud: Databases as a service.

Academic Publications

Aubrey Tatarowicz, Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones, and Samuel Madden. Lookup Tables: Fine-Grained Partitioning for Distributed Databases. In ICDE, Washington, DC, USA, Apr. 2012. (pdf)

Andrew Pavlo, Evan P. C. Jones, and Stanley Zdonik. On Predictive Modeling for Optimizing Transaction Execution in Parallel OLTP Systems. In PVLDB, vol. 5, no. 1, Sep. 2011.

Evan P. C. Jones, Daniel J. Abadi, and Samuel Madden. Low overhead concurrency control for partitioned main memory databases. In SIGMOD, Indianapolis, IN, USA, June 2010. (pdf)

Carlo Curino, Evan P. C. Jones, Yang Zhang, and Samuel Madden. Schism: a workload-driven approach to database replication and partitioning. In PVLDB, Singapore, Sep. 2010.

Robert Kallman, Hideaki Kimura, Jonathan Natkins, Andrew Pavlo, Alex Rasin, Stanley B. Zdonik, Evan P. C. Jones, Samuel Madden, Michael Stonebraker, Yang Zhang, John Hugg and Daniel J. Abadi. H-Store: a high-performance, distributed main memory transaction processing system. In PVLDB, Auckland, New Zealand, Aug. 2008. (demo)

Evan P. C. Jones, Lily Li, Jakub Schmidtke, and Paul A. S. Ward. Practical routing in delay-tolerant networks. In IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 943-959, Aug. 2007.

Evan P. C. Jones, Lily Li, and Paul A. S. Ward. Practical routing in delay-tolerant networks. In SIGCOMM 2005 Workshop on Delay Tolerant Networking (WDTN-05), Philadelphia, USA, Sep. 2005.

Evan P. C. Jones, Martin Karsten, and Paul A. S. Ward. Multipath load balancing in multi-hop wireless networks. In IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking, and Communications (WiMob'2005), Montreal, Canada, Aug. 2005.