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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 2021
Origin of the Elements Chart
Dr. Edward Murphy, University of Virginia, gave a profound talk on how stars create heavier elements from hydrogen and helium. One of the slides is remarkably informative, and supplements the periodic table: Lecture notes: – almost all elements come from … Continue reading
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Terraform Workspaces
Terraform workspaces allow you to use a different state file from the CLI, or the equivalent with Terraform Cloud. Workspaces are used to provide cooperative isolation. They can be thought of like programming language namespaces. A workspace called production is … Continue reading
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