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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.
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Monthly Archives: July 2017
Vulcanair 1.0 Training Airplane
I wasn’t aware that Vulcanair bought Partenavia out of bankruptcy in 1998, and has built an EASA-certified Cessna 172 clone, the Vulcanair 1.0, for almost half the price. The 1.0 is a corrosion-proofed metal G500-based glass-cockpit 4-seater with an IO-360 … Continue reading
PSA: Workarounds for CentOS 7.3 Problems with SE Linux 2.5
PSA: If you update to CentOS 7.3 and see odd console or log errors like this resulting in a hung boot: Failed to start Import network configuration from initramfs and/or work still pending FAILED Failed to start Login Service. See … Continue reading
Air Canada 759 Near-Miss at SFO on July 7, 2017
Update: as of Jan. 14, 2018, there have been 3 incidents in the past 6 months of airliners lining up for the wrong runway at SFO. On July 7, 2017 an Air Canada jet nearly landed on a busy taxiway, … Continue reading
Solr Meetup at Cloudera in Palo Alto
Cloudera hosted another Solr Meetup at their office in Palo Alto. About 30 people attended. Two software engineers from Cloudera did presentations tonite: 1) Michael Sun talked about his nitely Solr microbenchmark and cluster benchmarks. Solr Nightly Benchmarks (SOLR-10317) 2) … Continue reading
Distributed Systems Laws Applied to Distributed Databases
Avery’s Law of Distributed Systems Reliability: “Distributed systems are more reliable when you can get a service from one node OR another. They get less reliable when a service depends on one node AND another. And the numbers combine multiplicatively, … Continue reading