noise from a mozilla IT/Operations wrangler
Why don’t you use Firefox and can IT change that? At the beginning of the quarter I set an ambitious goal of trying to look at ways IT/Ops can reduce Firefox adoption/retention barriers. I kept rotating on the best way to frame this question and in the process probably kept over thinking it. Mentally I… Read more
In computers systems (and with others) there are often bottlenecks and removing those often reveals new ones. Today’s an example of just that. During a normal release we have tools we can use to adjust the rate at which we offer updates. We use this to reduce load on the back end systems or to… Read more
In my last post I talked about a 2mW user. Specifically I said: 5. Or, with roughly 250 million Firefox users, 50kW is 2 milliwatts/user (or 144Wh/month). I haven’t stopped thinking about that number as a metric of measuring efficiency or how much power it takes to do work (provide services) for some number of… Read more