The download controller was modified on Thursday to prepare for the release of the 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4 major update. During release cycles, AMO takes abnormally high load which sometimes causes interruptions in service. To avoid this situation we agreed to cache public download hits from the AMO install buttons. This does two things: Relieve... »
Steve Krug would agree that thinking is a bad thing. Not that thinking in general is bad. I’ve found that it is actually a good thing. Thinking can be bad when it is a barrier between a user and what they want. People don’t want to spend more time thinking about how... »
The last time Kubla came up we were still evaluating options and the code was an old version of CakePHP all flushed out with scaffolding. Most of the time between then and now has been spent on other projects (I’m looking at you AMO) but we’ve made enough progress to justify another... »
Wednesday was the first Firefox release since AMO 3.0 (Remora) launched in late March. It’s expected that traffic to Mozilla websites will increase following a release, but it’s usually in the range of 1.5 times normal traffic. Thursday, traffic to our San Jose facility tripled normal traffic, breaking 600 Mb/s. (The historical graph below... »
