Mozilla IT & Operations
As you may have noticed, we’ve missed a few of our weekly updates. We’ve had a rather rough go of it lately, and it’s about time for the highlight reel. Two major events stick out in hindsight. #1, No email for two days First up on the plate was a major Zimbra outage. This was… Read more
We’ve made a few additions and changes to the repos in MXR today, per Bugs 653424 and 675115. The following repos have been added and are processed daily: comm-aurora comm-beta comm-release mozilla-release l10n-mozilla-release Additionally the comm-2.0 repo was added as a one-time processing job, so it is indexed and searchable now as well. The following… Read more
Over the last few weeks we’ve been making a number of small changes to the MXR web tool (https://mxr.mozilla.org/), and it seems about time to highlight some of the bigger changes. Background MXR is the Mozilla Cross-Reference system. It’s basically a convenient way to search a whole lot of Mozilla code for certain things. I’m… Read more
We’ve recently been doing a lot of CDN work (see my last post on getpersonas.com), and out of that has come some interesting data as to our world-wide traffic distribution. Here’s a breakdown for of the traffic for getpersonas.com, by region: The CDN traffic for http://mozilla.org/firefox is similar… although Asia ranks a bit higher… Read more
We have just made a change to a DNS record for getpersonas.com affecting its CDN usage, and thought we’d share some of our findings as to it’s worldwide traffic patterns. Prior to now, getpersonas-cdn.mozilla.net pointed to a CDN aggregator service at 3crowd. We use this for several things. For example, aus2.mozilla.org (part of the Firefox… Read more
About 3 hours ago we updated the Mozilla Etherpad installation to a more current version. This has been in the works for almost a full year, and has finally come to fruition. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ Here’s a short list of the cool features we’re getting with this upgrade: More ports work. You can still connect to the… Read more
A lot has been going on lately in IT, and we haven’t had a chance to make a post about it. I thought it was about time to get out an update about the team and what we’ve been working on. Personnel changes: For starters, the IT team has grown quite a bit since I… Read more
