noise from a mozilla IT/Operations wrangler
Three years ago we were a team of 7 if I remember right. Today it’s a team of 38 spanning 6 different groups & 6 different time zones. They are doing things I wasn’t even imagining we’d be doing three years ago. They are, in many respects, the smartest group of people I have ever… Read more
Two weeks ago my entire team was onsite. It’s perhaps the first real IT/Operations onsite we’ve had. The group is finally large enough and geographically spread around where having focused onsites makes sense. Most of the week was spent with PuppetLabs and for various reasons, I missed the beginning of the week but I had… Read more
In late 2009 my friend and former colleague Dan Portillo introduced me to YearUp. I could say a lot about YearUp but none says it best than this PBS NewsHour segment. I met Jay and Sahaar at YearUp and immediately saw possibilities for Mozilla’s participation and by January 2010 we welcomed our first, albeit entirely… Read more
Musica cerca de Av. Corrientes y Av. 9 de Julio. Last week, for eight days, I was able to step outside my normal role managing Operations and wear an entirely different hat. I had an amazing opportunity to interact with the vibrant Mozilla and Open Source community; I got to interact with those who I… Read more
June 8, 2010. We’ve been tracking this date since Thunderbird 3.0 was released (December 8, 2009). We stop supporting Talkback (the crash reporting tool that was used in Firefox 2.0.0.x, Thunderbird 2.0.0.x, and Camino 1.5.x) today! Talkback’s long since been replaced by Breakpad. We will officially turn things off June 15 during our normal Tuesday… Read more
Mark your calendar. Saturday, April 17 @ 2pm. That’s the date we’ve scheduled to do some significant NetApp upgrades in San Jose (bug 502151). Unlike most NetApp upgrades, these will require real downtime. The nature of the upgrade involves updating the firmware on several disk array shelves and requires a power cycle of those shelves.… Read more
[root@ip-ns01 ~]# mtr www.mozilla.com –report ip-ns01.phx.mozilla.org Snt: 10 Loss% Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 10.8.75.1 0.0% 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.0 v500.core1.phx.mozilla.net 0.0% 1.1 1.3 1.0 3.1 0.6 xe-1-1-0.border1.phx.mozilla.net 0.0% 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.0 64.124.201.177 0.0% 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1 0.0 ge-0-3-0.mpr3.lax9.us.above.net 0.0% 9.4 13.0 9.4 44.3 11.0 xe-0-1-0.er1.lax9.us.above.net 0.0% 9.5 13.7 9.4 51.4… Read more
Short story: We’re building out a data center presence in Phoenix, Arizona! This quarter we will be building out an initial six rack deployment (~80 servers) at i/o Data Center’s Phoenix ONE. This will give Mozilla another top tier data center on the same scale as our current primary location in San Jose, California. By… Read more
Mozilla’s North American store has been down in maintenance mode (you can read about the why) but not the International Store. The old store used to redirect non-North American users to the International Store, but unfortunately that redirect wasn’t carried over when we took the store offline. I was inspired Sunday night to put together… Read more
Three years ago this coming December I went to Amsterdam and installed our first non-US data center location. I remember coming back and was up late at night (fighting jetlag) setting up the Netscaler load balancers. By early January we had a CVS mirror up and running and a week later had staged www.mozilla.com and… Read more
