-
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
- RedisConf 2020 Takeaway, May 12-14, 2020 Virtual (Free)
- AWS Summit Online May 13, 2020
- Percona, May 18–20, 2020, AT&T Convention Center, Austin
- Jenkins/Cloudbees, Sept. 21-24, 2020, TBA, Vegas
- PagerDuty Summit, Sept. 21-23, 2020, SF
- postgresopen.org (TBD)
- API World 2020, Oct. 27–29, 2020, San Jose Convention Center
Theme Song for this blog is "Fingerprint", sung by ChariceMarch 2021 S M T W T F S « Jun 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 San Jose, San Jose International Airport, CA
Last Updated on Mar 5 2021, 1:53 pm PST
Weather by NOAA
Current Conditions: Mostly Cloudy
Temp: 66°F
Wind: North at 10mph
Humidity: 37%
Dewpoint: 39.0°F
Categories
- Angry Birds (5)
- API Programming (54)
- BSD (38)
- Business (255)
- Cassandra (31)
- Cloud (91)
- CNC (3)
- Conferences (73)
- Flight Simulators (6)
- Flying (93)
- GC Pauses (4)
- Hadoop (13)
- i18n (60)
- Indonesia (41)
- Japanese (56)
- Java (11)
- Karate (2)
- Linux (232)
- Microservices (9)
- MySQL (168)
- MySQL Cluster (16)
- Open Source (377)
- Oracle (66)
- OSCON (17)
- Perl (113)
- Personal (9)
- Photography (73)
- Postgresql (11)
- Psychology (49)
- REST API Programming (8)
- Restaurant Reviews (35)
- Retro (15)
- San Jose Bay Area (46)
- Storage (117)
- Tablets (10)
- Tech (1,014)
- Toys (362)
- Travel (101)
- Uncategorized (2)
- User Groups (75)
Meta
RackPing Graphs
- Daily Performance for Monitor Check 1000001 March 5, 2021RackPing Performance Graph
- Daily Performance for Monitor Check 1000001 March 5, 2021
-
RackPing Performance Graph
Category Archives: Toys
Korg ARP 2600 Synthesizer Available Again
ARP 2600, new! lol. It was the first portable (van instead of truck) synth, and used in the original Star Wars movie for the “voice” of R2-D2. ARP went out of business after some failed products, and Korg bought them. … Continue reading
Frank Denis says Stop using ridiculously low DNS TTLs
One of the best DNS posts I’ve seen in the last decade, on short TTL issues. It’s also a great tutorial on how to do data-driven technical analysis. As a DNS administrator, I knew it was bad, but not that … Continue reading
Correct-endian
Programmers who want to curry favor (to be polite) with Paul Graham, the founder of Ycombinator, upvote postings on the Lisp programming language on news.ycombinator.com. Humorously, one commenter noticed this gem in a Lisp article: 🙂 classichasclass 3 hours ago … Continue reading
ADS-B Juicy Gossip
U.S. aircraft operators are required to have digital position reporting (ADS-B Out) installed, working and certified before Jan. 1, 2020 and European operators June 7, 2020. uAvionix sells the very innovative tailBeacon-TSO for small airplanes in the USA at only … Continue reading
Congrats to HondaJet for their New Elite Model
HondaJet Elite SP Jet I’ve been following the development of the HondaJet for over a decade, and they just released their new Elite SP model with several small refinements that add up to major utility and fewer fuel stops over … Continue reading