Archive for December, 2008
Top Crashers By Url and MTBF
Working with ss and chofman, we've created 2 new types of reports: a Top Crashers by Url and a Mean Time Before Failure (MTBF). Given the current state of performance of the non-report parts of Socorro's webapp, most of the thought and time have gone into the backend piece of these reports. You can read about the ReportDatabaseDesign on the project's wiki. Top Crashers by URL On which websites do our browser builds crash the ... Read More »
Socorro wireframes
As part of our ongoing work on the Mozilla crash reporting system (codenamed "Socorro") a redesign of the entire interface is in the works, and I have some preliminary wireframes to share for feedback and discussion. My personal goals with this redesign are to make working with crash data more efficient, and to make each screen as useful and as intuitive as possible. This project is an interesting challenge, however, as there are not a lot of publicly-available examples of crash reporting systems to use as a baseline. "Home" page Current page: http://crash-stats.mozilla.com/ Currently when you go to the Socorro home page ... Read More »
Three Weeks with the New Socorro File System
Three weeks ago today, we deployed the new Socorro file system into production. It was the first in in a series of engineered improvements to the Socorro codebase. By “engineered”, I mean that it was the first major improvement to the code that wasn't done during an emergency with a gun to our heads. For the previous half year, we've been reactive instead of proactive. The new file system has performed quite well. The most outward expression of this improvement is the speed at which priority jobs are processed. A priority job is any submitted ... Read More »
