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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: June 2017
Configuring IPv6 on Linux CentOS
Configuring IPv6 on your linux server is this easy if your ISP is IPv6-ready (if not, see Tunnelbroker links below) on CentOS 5 and 7: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-my_interface file, note the settings that start with “IPV6” and update them: DNS2=2001:4860:4860::8888 – … Continue reading
Debugging CSS for Programmers
In the 90’s and 00’s, programmers used to scorn front-end designers who called writing HTML “programming.” That changed when CSS arrived and pixel-perfect results raised the bar. Here’s some tips for programmers struggling with fixing CSS rendering problems: Before Getting … Continue reading
Redis Conference 2017
I went to RedisConf 2017 Wed. and Thu. at the Marriott Marquis in SF hosted by RedisLabs. About 2,000 people showed up – initially surprising to me, but then Redis is more than a key-value store. Kudos to RedisLabs for … Continue reading
Dutch King reveals he secretly piloted KLM passenger flights
I used to fly with the Chief Flight Instructor (CFI) for one of these flying kings. Ask me about it sometime! 🙂 Dutch King reveals he secretly piloted KLM passenger flights for 21 years