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Over the last several months we’ve had intermittent trouble with our FTP cluster that powers ftp.mozilla.org, as well as acting as the origin host for the primary product delivery CDNs, download.cdn.mozilla.net. Despite the name, the vast majority of the traffic … Continue reading
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As of last week, Chromium is now indexed within mxr.mozilla.org! This is an oft-requested bit of functionality. The main benefit is simplicity- rather than having to go to Google’s Chromium code search, it’s already right in the tool you already … Continue reading
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After months of effort in coding, testing, delays, and redesigns, we are very happy to announce that MoPad (etherpad.mozilla.org) is now BrowserID-aware for all “Team Site” logins. All existing Team Sites and user logins are still present, but are now … Continue reading
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I am very excited to announce that we have rolled out a number of our top-tier websites over IPv6! Thanks to some extraordinary effort by our Network Operations team, our PHX1 datacenter now has full IPv6 connectivity, and we’re taking … Continue reading
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What is Global Load Balancing? Global Load Balancing is the act of directing traffic to multiple locations over a wide area. It differs from normal load balancing in that the nodes you’re directing traffic to are not “local”… you can’t … Continue reading
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As you may have noticed, we’ve missed a few of our weekly updates. We’ve had a rather rough go of it lately, and it’s about time for the highlight reel. Two major events stick out in hindsight. #1, No email … Continue reading
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We’ve made a few additions and changes to the repos in MXR today, per Bugs 653424 and 675115. The following repos have been added and are processed daily: comm-aurora comm-beta comm-release mozilla-release l10n-mozilla-release Additionally the comm-2.0 repo was added as … Continue reading
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Over the last few weeks we’ve been making a number of small changes to the MXR web tool (https://mxr.mozilla.org/), and it seems about time to highlight some of the bigger changes. Background MXR is the Mozilla Cross-Reference system. It’s basically … Continue reading
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We’ve recently been doing a lot of CDN work (see my last post on getpersonas.com), and out of that has come some interesting data as to our world-wide traffic distribution. Here’s a breakdown for of the traffic for getpersonas.com, by … Continue reading
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We have just made a change to a DNS record for getpersonas.com affecting its CDN usage, and thought we’d share some of our findings as to it’s worldwide traffic patterns. Prior to now, getpersonas-cdn.mozilla.net pointed to a CDN aggregator service … Continue reading