Happy Ada Lovelace Day! This day is celebrated by writing about a woman in technology who inspired you. For Ada Lovelace Day this year, I want to honor Sheila Howell, a computer science academic at my alma mater, RMIT University. … Continue reading
Next week, a number of Mozilla webdevs will be making a pilgrimage to PyCodeConf, put on by the nice people at github, in Miami. I’ll be speaking on the topic of Processing Firefox Crash Reports with Python. Mozilla is also … Continue reading
Yesterday, we pushed out Socorro 2.1, which changes the way we calculate crashes/ADU. We’ve now started including content and plugin crashes in these crash counts. This means that when you look at graphs on crash-stats.mozilla.com today, you’ll see an uptick … Continue reading
As readers of my blog posts know, Socorro is Mozilla’s crash reporting system. All of the code for Socorro (the crash catcher) and Breakpad (the client side) is open source and available on Google Code. Some other companies are starting … Continue reading
As per my previous blog post, we migrated Socorro to the new data center in Phoenix successfully on Saturday. This has been a mammoth exercise, that sprang from two separate roots: In June last year, we had a configuration problem … Continue reading
On Saturday, January 22, starting at 9am PST, we will proceed with the Socorro datacenter migration. Background As most people who touch Socorro know, we have been close to capacity on the current systems in San Jose for some months. … Continue reading
In recent blog posts I’ve talked about our plans for Socorro and our move to HBase. Today, I’d like to invite community feedback on the draft of our plans for Socorro 2.0. In summary, we have been moving our data … Continue reading
We’ve been incredibly busy over on the Socorro project, and I have been remiss in blogging. Over the next week or so I’ll be catching up on what we’ve been doing in a series of blog posts. If you’re not … Continue reading
On Thursday June 10 Socorro (including http://crash-stats.mozilla.com) will be down for maintenance from roughly 10am – 2pm Pacific time. We will be releasing 1.7 which involves switching over crash report storage from NFS to HBase, the Hadoop database. Please let … Continue reading
Recently, we’ve been working on planning out the future of Socorro. If you’re not familiar with it, Socorro is Mozilla’s crash reporting system. You may have noticed that Firefox has become a lot less crashy recently – we’ve seen a … Continue reading
