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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: February 2019
India Requests Additional MiG-29 Fighters – in 2019
Interesting how supposedly “obsolete” but great military airplanes never disappear: USA has chosen the B-52 (first flown 1952) to outlast the B-1 and B-2 due to high maintenance costs and low dispatch rate of the newer stealth bombers. More. USA … Continue reading
Comprehensive and Well-written Collection of Life and Business Development Topics
35 Hard Truths You Should Know Before Becoming “Successful” is a comprehensive and well-written collection of life and business development topics. They can be used in many useful ways: read in one sitting, combined with self-reflection as a sequence of … Continue reading
Postgres Performance on AWS EBS
AWS EBS is network-attached storage … in other words, S L O W, compared to local SSD for Postgres database use. I’ve been seeing average disk latency of 0.55 – 0.80 milliseconds per block (when operating correctly, otherwise 3 ms … Continue reading
Cassandra vnodes Streaming Reliability Calculator
The Cassandra database has a setting in cassandra.yaml, num_tokens, for the number of vnodes. num_tokens is the number of partitions to use per host, and thus the number of parallel streams to use for data updates. The default was 256 … Continue reading
Postgres Monitoring Script pg_glance.sh Available
I wrote a small performance monitoring script for Postgres during the Super Bowl on Sunday called pg_glance. You can download it from my github project pg_glance. Getting Started with pg_glance It’s easy to get started … If you’re remotely monitoring … Continue reading
