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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: May 2018
Facebook Production Engineering Open House 2018
I attended the Facebook Production Engineering Open House at their Menlo Park HQ. “Production Engineering is Facebook’s secret sauce – it draws on multiple disciplines (Software Engineering, Systems Administration, Distributed Systems and Networking) to plan, build and maintain the massive … Continue reading
Northrop Grumman F-5 Links
Northrop F5 Freedom Fighter HD Ron Gibb, former Northrop Grumman F-5 Project Office, conducts a walk-around of the F-5A Freedom Fighter F-0195 Northrop F-5A Tiger (Ad) NORTHROP T-38 TALON PROMOTIONAL FILM “THE VERSATILE T-38” 22594 NORTHROP F-20 TIGERSHARK SALES FILM … Continue reading
PostgreSQL and “PANIC: replication checkpoint has wrong magic” error
PSA: I haven’t seen a solution to this issue online, so posting it here for search engines to index. PostgreSQL is an ACID-compliant database, but filesystem corruption can still prevent it from starting. In my case, a linux test instance … Continue reading
AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) – Call Me Maybe
When is a load balancer not really a load balancer? When it’s an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (Classic ELB or ALB.) Although it’s been well-documented for at least 6 years, it’s still not well-known that one side of a Classic … Continue reading