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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA/SRE in Silicon Valley. I've been engineering for over 20 years for companies like eBay, Netflix, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.
I use TuCows/Hover for registering domain names.
I am available for MySQL/Postgres DBA/SRE/Security work in Silicon Valley or remote. Click here to contact me.
I am a MariaDB/MySQL code contributor and Perl CPAN author. Check out my github. My most recent project is cassandra-top.
In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life. San Jose, San Jose International Airport, CA
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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Upgrading Percona Server 5.5 to 5.6 on CentOS
I like using Percona Server for some projects because you get to see what their clients feel is important for operating MySQL at scale, as reflected in the features that Percona adds. Some examples are fast Innodb log replay and … Continue reading
ArXiv Paper on Using Additive Noise to Determine Cause and Effect
One doesn’t see many scientific papers that are immediately useful, but this one qualifies: arXiv.org: Distinguishing Cause From Effect Using Observational Data: Methods And Benchmarks Physics arXiv Blog: Cause And Effect: The Revolutionary New Statistical Test That Can Tease Them … Continue reading
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