In my last post I talked about a 2mW user. Specifically I said:
5. Or, with roughly 250 million Firefox users, 50kW is 2 milliwatts/user (or 144Wh/month).
I haven’t stopped thinking about that number as a metric of measuring efficiency or how much power it takes to do work (provide services) for some number of Firefox users. [...]
I’ve been working on a couple capacity planning projects and have been knee deep in bandwidth metrics. That, combined with turning up Level3 yesterday got me looking more into where that bandwidth is coming from (and Reed asked).
The first chart shows a breakdown by protocol. Shouldn’t be any surprise that 82% of Mozilla’s [...]
My pleas to Mary have gone unheeded. Where is my Mozilla Firefox themed Infectious artwork?
(Yes, this is a desperate plea to the community to come to my aid.)
Facebook says 25, planet.mozilla.org says 7. I prefer not to be a strict follower of either and I’m sure no one needs to re-read the rules again. You can blame Mayu and Sean.
If I had to do it all over again, I’d do something around sociology. I’m often fascinated by human interactions and behavior. [...]
NSID 2008 had to come to an early close for me today. I leave Monday for my sister’s wedding in Chicagoland and while I would have loved to hold out till the end of the month or even a few more days, that just wasn’t realistic (something about looking presentable).
You could argue I could [...]
I have some pretty fond memories of my Dad, a math teacher, bringing home one of the (or maybe it was the) Apple II computers from work when I was in first or second grade. That’s how I got introduced to computers (and where I learned how to spell catalog). It’s also where I spent [...]
I mentioned briefly in Monday’s meeting the performance issues we’re having with our load balancers. Since then, we’ve been hustling to turn up something in the short term to handle Thursday’s Major Update and Firefox 3.0.5/2.0.0.19 release (see here).
For a number of months we’ve been looking at Zeus and their ZXTM product. It has some [...]
A couple months ago I mentioned how things have grown in the past two years at Mozilla. Back then we barely pushed any traffic to the Internet and survived on less than a dozen app servers.
Things have changed. I’ll highlight just a couple of them:
Active Firefox users grew from roughly 20 million users to over [...]
CA Academy of Sciences, Living Roof
This is far from my normal Mozilla related posts but worthwhile enough that I feel like sharing it.
I took my two children to the California Academy of Sciences this weekend. I wasn’t sure what to expect but since it’s new (or newly opened) and I enjoy these types out outings [...]
