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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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Category Archives: Conferences
Redis Conference 2017
I went to RedisConf 2017 Wed. and Thu. at the Marriott Marquis in SF hosted by RedisLabs. About 2,000 people showed up – initially surprising to me, but then Redis is more than a key-value store. Kudos to RedisLabs for … Continue reading
Percona Live MySQL Conference 2017
Percona Live 2017 was again a well-organized and well-attended Open Source database conference this year in Santa Clara. Peter Zaitsev, Co-founder and CEO, Percona Each year a different conference theme emerges. This year I would say it was timeseries databases, … Continue reading
AWS Loft Architecture Week – Databases
I attended 2 days of the AWS Loft SF Database Architecture Conference. The software scalability work that Amazon has done on databases and caches, especially the Aurora distributed MySQL and Postgres databases, is very impressive. (DBA note: do careful acceptance … Continue reading
I found jMeter, however, really easy to use.
So, let me get this straight … Java is not safe for use in servers because of GC pauses. And it’s not safe for use in clients because of GC pauses. Doesn’t leave much left! 🙂 Thanks to Greg Lindahl, … Continue reading
PagerDuty Summit Conference 2016 SF
I went to the complimentary PagerDuty Summit Sept. 13 on Market Street in SF. The well-organized conference format was 2 tracks downstairs, with breaks and a small expo area upstairs. Andrew Fong of Dropbox had a very good talk on … Continue reading
