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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.
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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.
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Lessons from “Gear-Up Mishap Was Botched Go-Around”
Hitting the runway on a go-around is not the greatest airmanship, but the Aerostar pilot did one thing right: he didn’t panic and continued flying the airplane. Aerostar with curled props after ground contact. It is interesting to see that … Continue reading
GNU Parted Alignment Check Option
GNU Parted 2.1 (available in Redhat 6+) has a very interesting option for storage engineers, sysadmins and DBAs: 2.4.1 align-check Command: align-check align-type n Determine whether the starting sector of partition n meets the disk’s selected alignment criteria. align-type must … Continue reading
Percona MySQL Conference 2015
Wed. Keynotes WebscaleSQL 5 companies Facebook, Google, Alibaba, Twitter Percona and MariaDB Please use apache CLA MariaDB.com CEO http://451research.com/dashboard/dpa Multisource replication from Taobao Spider Sharding Atomic writes with Fusion IO/Sandisk 18% faster with 1/4 writes Coneect Storage Engine for Federation … Continue reading
O’Reilly: Managing Mission-Critical Domains and DNS
It’s been a while since I looked forward to a book, but this one by Mark Jeftovic, founder & CEO of easyDNS Technologies Inc, of easydns.com looks pretty interesting: What’s amusing is that Amazon lists it as #1 in “Hot … Continue reading
Drones and ADS-B
AvWeb has a very interesting article on possible Google involvement with drones and ADS-B. For those new to ADS-B, at a high level it is digital beacon that must be installed on all airliners world-wide, and in the USA all … Continue reading