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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: May 2017
Sharing Economy in China 2017
Reuters article on the “sharing economy” in China: China’s slam dunk ‘sharing economy’ booms, but can it last? “Twelve firms renting out power banks – typically compact, mobile battery chargers – secured 1.13 billion yuan, while newer businesses such as … Continue reading
Ecommerce Weather Report for Manila in 2017
This is a follow-up to my 2016 post. Not much new in mid-2017 for online shopping sites, but Honestbee is doing the first grocery home delivery now in the Philippines. The dominant grocery chain is Robinson’s, but they don’t offer … Continue reading
SVG and Favicon Workflow Links
Inkscape Vector Editing Software (and Early SVG Reference Implementation) Inkscape: Homepage, W Automating App Assets With Inkscape HN discussion SO: Convert and resize SVG to PNG PySVG workflow plus pictdiff “PNG rendering changes when a) Inkscape is updated, b) the … Continue reading
Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!
Landmark “corporate” technical blog post from Willy Tarreau titled “Truly Seamless Reloads with HAProxy – No More Hacks!” Summary is that there is progress concerning HAProxy zero-downtime reloads on linux, even under heavy connection load. Interestingly, microservice owners doing frequent … Continue reading
Percona Live MySQL Conference 2017
Percona Live 2017 was again a well-organized and well-attended Open Source database conference this year in Santa Clara. Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO, Percona Each year a different conference theme emerges. This year I would say it was timeseries databases, … Continue reading
