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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: Tech
Very Light Jet (VLJ) Market History to 2020
Like everybody connected to the aviation industry, I watched the Very Light Jet (VLJ) market hype (mostly around Paul Allen’s Eclipse 500,) in 2002 and wondered how the market would shake out. After the Eclipse announcement, around 10 competitors announced … Continue reading
Software Fix Found For A220 Engine Acoustic Resonance Shutdowns
Very interesting: “Airbus has determined that acoustic resonance is behind the destruction of four engines on its new A220 airliners in the last couple of years. The company has come up with a software fix for the condition, which caused … Continue reading
Cessna 210 Wing Spar Failure
Cessna T210M Wing Spar Shear between top rivets and lower I-beam Flange Narrowing Point (and Lower Forging Lightening Spotface Indentation.) The white foam may have collected water, aiding corrosion. Photo credit: ATSB. (click image to enlarge) I’ve read thousands of … Continue reading
Covid-19: Nobody Saw Another Corona Virus Coming?
The frequent excuse for the lack of civil preparedness to the corona virus is, “Nobody saw it coming.” Well, actually that’s not true: BlueDot, a news alert service, notified their subscribers on Dec. 30 a Texas grocery store chain with … Continue reading
Perl Sample Code for Geolocation Lookups with MaxMind GeoLite2
There’s been a lot of changes with MaxMind’s GeoIP database: You must register for an account to download databases. The database format was changed from GeoIP to GeoIP2. The free databases are called GeoLite2. Older lookup APIs no longer work, … Continue reading
