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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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Monthly Archives: October 2018
DNS infrastructures still vulnerable to attacks
Nice article on what’s new in DNS in the past 2 years – not much apparently, according to Cricket Liu and ThousandEyes. Also check out the new DNS book from Mark Jeftovic, the founder and CEO of EasyDNS.com. dnsdist O2 … Continue reading
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Devops and Failing Forward
When deploying a production change, usually you have a rollback procedure – documented even! 🙂 But sometimes after a deploy, things don’t work exactly as expected. At that time, you need to decide which is better: rollback, or fail forward? … Continue reading
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