This Week in Data: There’s No Such Thing as a Normal Month
(“This Week in Data” is a series of blog posts that the Data Team at Mozilla is using to communicate about our work. Posts in this series could be release … Read more
Articles in “Data Engineering”
Incident Report: A compiler bug and JSON
It all started rather inconspicuous: The Data Engineering team filed a bug report about a sudden increase in schema errors at ingestion of telemetry data from Firefox for Android. At … Read more
Glean Memory Usage Reporting
Since Bug 1896609 landed we now have Glean & Firefox on Glean (FOG) memory reporting built into the Firefox Memory Reporter. This allows us to measure the allocated memory in … Read more
Data and Firefox Suggest
Introduction Firefox Suggest is a feature that displays direct links to content on the web based on what users type into the Firefox address bar. Some of the content that … Read more
How do we preserve the integrity of business metrics while safeguarding our users privacy choice?
Abstract. Respecting our user’s privacy choices is at the top of our priorities and it also involves the deletion of their data from our Data Warehouse (DHW) when they request … Read more
Never Look at the Data: Why did we start getting so many pings from Korea?
Something happened on January 5, 2023. All of a sudden we abruptly started receiving a number of pings from Firefox Desktop clients in Korea equal to two times the size … Read more