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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.
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Monthly Archives: November 2017
How to Autoscale AWS RDS Read Slaves
I don’t see a lot of links on autoscaling AWS RDS read slaves. Is the reason: AWS RDS users are simply content with relying on features as they arrive? users could just be upsizing RDS masters or moving to Aurora, … Continue reading
Database Blob Normal Form – Blob NF
I propose a new normal form for databases, Blob Normal Form (Blob NF.) Definition: A database is in Blob Normal Form (Blob NF) when all fields containing binary data or long arbitrary text are moved to tables consisting of a … Continue reading
TechShop Closes November 15, 2017
I was a supporter for TechShop, but always wondered how it could operate in expensive urban locations like Silicon Valley. Well, it closed today. Here’s the announcement.
Internet Latency and Multi-Master Database Transactions
There’s 2 common misconceptions in engineering West Coast – East Coast data centers: that packets travel at the speed of light that database masters can be located anywhere (ie. far apart.) What happens when we look at the actual latency … Continue reading
The Awesome Cloudify Orchestration Tool Roundup Slides
Cloudify and Gigaspaces wrote a really useful slide deck titled, “Orchestration Tool Roundup – Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes, TerraForm vs. TOSCA/Cloudify vs. Heat” dated June 11, 2015. There’s 3 things that make the slides awesome: they start with a sample … Continue reading