Mozilla IT & Operations
As many Mozillians know, we’ve begun work on rebooting Air Mozilla, our streaming video service. Most of the early changes are under the hood, but I wanted to let you know about a few small improvements we have in place already. There’s a web-based event scheduling system in the works for later this year, but… Read more
The overriding theme this week – we are still doing a lot of shifting around of databases pending our data center move. This week, the database team at Mozilla has: – Discovered some minor but important issues following a crash. We have increased alerting to ensure that if cleanup after a crash is necessary, the… Read more
We’ll be taking down svn.mozilla.org for urgent security maintenance tonight starting at 1900 PST (0300 UTC). During this window svn.mozilla.org will be completely offline, no check-outs or check-ins will be permitted. Time: February 24th 2012, 1900 PST to February 25th 2012, 0100 PST (February 25th 2012, 0300 – 0900 UTC) Scheduled downtime: 6 hours Estimated… Read more
I found Baron’s reasoning on why the Percona Nagios plugins do not use caching interesting. On the surface, the logic is sound – you do not want to cache when you want real-time monitoring. I have not yet had time to look at the Percona plugins for Nagios, though I do want to, because back… Read more
I have been at Mozilla nearly three months, and I used to blog a lot more than I currently do. A lot of the content I used to blog about I end up blogging and talking about in OurSQL: The MySQL Database Community Podcast. And I have also been getting used to the Mozilla firehose,… Read more
