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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: User Groups
SVLUG: Daniel Klopp on Docker
At Silicon Valley Users Group (SVLUG) tonite, Daniel Klopp, Senior Technical Consultant, Taos Consulting, gave an intermediate talk on “Docker.” He had some really informative and detailed slides on using Docker, especially his cgroup commands samples. Some of the interesting … Continue reading
SVLUG: Puppet
At the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group tonite, James Taylor gave an intro on using Puppet. Overall, he loves Puppet. One of the few things he doesn’t like is the puppet-specific url of puppet:///, and another is user mgmt. He … Continue reading
SVLUG: SSH: Tips and Tricks
Tonite at the Silicon Valley Linux Users Group (SVLUG), Jess Males gave an interesting talk on “SSH: Tips and Tricks”, including uncommon options, creating tunnels and running remote commands like tcpdump. Jess was an East Coast sysadmin who worked at … Continue reading
sv.pm.org: Building a Web Crawler with Perl
Tonite at Silicon Valley Perl Mongers Group (sv.pm.org), Lambert Lum gave a talk on “Building a Web Crawler with Perl.” Largely he talked about the following Perl modules: WWW::Mechanize Web::Scraper Joe McMahon, a CPAN maintainer of 30 modules including WWW::Mechanize::Plugin, … Continue reading
Meetup: Scaling Chef at Facebook
At the Bay Area Chef User Group tonite in Mountain View, Phil Dibowitz from Facebook Operations reprised a talk he gave at ChefConf 2013, “Scaling Chef at Facebook.” His team of 4 people write and maintain the Chef systems for … Continue reading
