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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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Daily Archives: July 12, 2017
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
Posted in Cassandra, Cloud, Storage, Tech
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Perl, DBI and MySQL utf8mb4 Character Set Support
MySQL’s modern UTF-8 encoding is named utf8mb4 (4 bytes), not utf8 (3 bytes.) For new applications, especially web, you should start with utf8mb4. For existing applications, you need to decide if an upgrade is worthwhile, and test extensively before a … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Open Source, Oracle, Perl, Tech
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