Posted in Uncategorized on August 15th, 2010 4 Comments »
Exponential growth, one of the few problems every organization loves, is usually alleviated by scaling out using clustered computing (Hadoop), CDN, EC2 and myriad of other solutions. While a lot of cycles are spent in making sure each scaled out machine contains requisite libraries, latest code deployments, matching configs, and the whole nine yards, very [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 18th, 2010 8 Comments »
Update: Ken Kovash studied the Firefox 3.6 downloads and found a wonderful reason for them! See here for more details. I was asked this evening if the nightly report was correct in showing that we had a 128% increase in Firefox downloads today. The answer is a resounding yes that figure is correct, but I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 10th, 2009 8 Comments »
I was presented with the challenge of answering the question – how many Firefox users have one add-on or more installed on their Firefox. Currently, addons.mozilla.org (AMO) has statistics on the download counts of add-ons but the actual usage of add-ons has been unanswered. The Add-ons manager inside of Firefox will check each add-on for [...]
