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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.
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Category Archives: Postgresql
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
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
Facebook Production Engineering Open House 2018
I attended the Facebook Production Engineering Open House at their Menlo Park HQ. “Production Engineering is Facebook’s secret sauce – it draws on multiple disciplines (Software Engineering, Systems Administration, Distributed Systems and Networking) to plan, build and maintain the massive … Continue reading
PostgreSQL and “PANIC: replication checkpoint has wrong magic” error
PSA: I haven’t seen a solution to this issue online, so posting it here for search engines to index. PostgreSQL is an ACID-compliant database, but filesystem corruption can still prevent it from starting. In my case, a linux test instance … Continue reading
Percona Live 2018 Conference
I attended the Percona Live 2018 database conference in Santa Clara again. As always, the conference was very well-organized and had great talks. For 2018, Percona attempted to make it more affordable, with prices in the $600 range. Much appreciated! … Continue reading