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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 2019
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- postgresopen.org (Sept. 2019 TBD)
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sv.pm.org: Building a Web-Scale Search Engine with Perl
Greg Lindahl, Founder and CTO of Blekko.com, an alternative search engine, gave a fascinating talk tonite at Silicon Valley Perl Mongers on “Building a Web-Scale Search Engine with Perl.” “Over the past 5 years we’ve built a web-scale search engine … Continue reading
Database Architecture: System of Record and MySQL Multi-Master Products
As MySQL multi-master products (Galera, Percona Xtradb Cluster/Galera, Tungsten Replication, etc.) proliferate, a question arises, “How do they support the notion of “The system of record”? There’s 3 aspects of implementing the system of record (non-trivial in of multi-master systems): … Continue reading
Retrofitting PCIE SSD Cards In Older Servers
I talked to three PCIe-card flash vendors (Fusion IO, STEC and Micron) at the Percona Live Conference. Their listing pricing for Quantity 1 is: Fusion IO Direct Acceleration Products – $10,000+ for ioDrive2, volume discount for ioScale product (Google, Facebook, … Continue reading
Rackspace Cloud Servers and Cloud API Review
TL;DR: Rackspace Cloud is an acceptable option for existing Rackspace dedicated or managed colo customers, or those who need an alternative to AWS (or just lots of handholding and phone support), and can be very patient for future features. Introduction … Continue reading