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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. Upcoming Events 2020
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- postgresopen.org (TBD)
- API World 2020, Oct. 27–29, 2020, San Jose Convention Center
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Category Archives: OSCON
Some ZFS News
Phoronix has a really well-written article on ZFS, including news on a company planning to release a CDDL-licensed linux kernel module. ZFS is the holy grail of filesystems. Many Database Administrators have switched from Linux to Solaris because ZFS has … Continue reading
O’Reilly Open Source Conference 2010, Portland
Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was a good conference, and we had beautiful weather all week long. Executive Summary The themes promoted by the conference organizers were Cloud Computing, NoSQL, Emerging … Continue reading
OSCON 2009 – San Jose
For the first time in a decade, the O’Reilly Perl and Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held San Jose again for 2009. (I have heard that the City of San Jose Business Development office is very, very accommodating towards conferences … Continue reading
SVLUG: The Parrot Virtual Machine, Allison Randal
Allison Randal gave an overview of the Parrot Virtual Machine, plus delved into the syntactic details of the PIR assembly language for the virtual machine. (around 1200 opcodes.) Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages. She’s … Continue reading
OSCON 2008, Portland
I attended the O’Reilly Open Source Conference, once again in Portland, Oregon. Overall my impression was that the talks and vibe were oriented towards Web 2.0 primarily. I would say that the talks were not as strong as previous years, … Continue reading