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Posts from December, 2011

Project: SCL3. What powers growth?

Posted by mrz

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What drives Mozilla IT’s data center growth? You do. I can break down the machines in the data center into three sections (and this is a very simplistic view): Classic infrastructure. All the web sites and infrastructure to support Mozilla and Firefox. Release Engineering. All the infrastructure that builds and tests Firefox. Services. Right now… Read more

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Categories: Data Centers

To Tree or Not to Tree

Posted by dmoore

This week, our Phoenix datacenter fell prey to a series of brief rolling outages which visibly impacted many of Mozilla’s public services. Generally speaking, our datacenter architectures are intentionally simple and spanning tree has served us well. However, as we have grown to meet demand, some of our more… venerable datacenters have become convoluted as… Read more

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Categories: Outages