In response to strong user uptake of Mozilla’s new Sync service powered by Firefox Accounts, earlier this year we announced a plan to transition users off of our legacy Sync infrastructure and onto the new product. With this migration now … Continue reading
TL;DR QA as a function in software is and has been changing. It is less about validating changes and writing test plans and more about pushing quality forward through tools, automation, and process refinement. We must work to improve the … Continue reading
Last week, we signed an agreement with Combain AB, a Swedish company dedicated to accurate global positioning through wireless and cell tower signals. The agreement lets Mozilla use Combain’s service as a fallback for Mozilla Location Service. Additionally, we’re exchanging … Continue reading
Each week the Cloud Services team hosts a “Show and Tell” where people in the team share the interesting stuff they’ve been doing. This post wraps up months show and tells so that we can share them with everyone. Jan … Continue reading
At Mozilla, we recently had to implement the Hawk authentication scheme for a number of projects, and we came up creating two libraries to ease integration into Pyramid and Node.js apps. But maybe you don’t know Hawk? Hawk is a … Continue reading
It has been almost a year since the release of Firefox Accounts and the new Firefox Sync service, and the response from users has been very positive. The simplified setup process has made it easier to get started with the … Continue reading
In the last year the Firefox Marketplace migrated from Persona to Firefox Accounts. This was done for a couple of reasons, perhaps the biggest being that Firefox OS was switching to Firefox Accounts. On a Firefox OS phone, you will … Continue reading
I’ve been experimenting with Heka throughput recently, and have discovered a few log parsing tips and tricks that I thought were worth sharing. I ran tests on my Lenovo Thinkpad W530 laptop, which has four 2.8GHz cores, showing up as … Continue reading
