AMO 3.2 Preview
AMO has a new look and we need your help to polish it off. Please tell us what you think! Check it out at preview.addons.mozilla.org Tell us what you think or File a bug Check the webdev blog for updates … Continue reading
AMO has a new look and we need your help to polish it off. Please tell us what you think! Check it out at preview.addons.mozilla.org Tell us what you think or File a bug Check the webdev blog for updates … Continue reading
Yes, we are over 10,000 commits in our subversion repository. This last update for AMO trunk includes the following fixes, among others: Update sk locale from bug 367271 Improving install experience for non-browser apps (bug 401272, r=clouserw) adding GUID to … Continue reading
Bouncer had a few updates last night: Database library rewritten to be lightweight and use memcache (see tests) Overall requests per second performance increased 2x Database usage down to about zero because of memcache To see the difference, I’ll show … Continue reading
Socorro has had a few improvements over the last week. bsmedberg, ispiked and luser worked hard to bring you: Graphs to show crash population over time Crash reports by operating system Crash reports by build and operating system There are … Continue reading
Wil posted a blog that is a great resource for people looking to localize their sites. For those of you who went to our OSCON presentation, this is a great follow-up to the concepts we presented in our talk.
The download controller was modified on Thursday to prepare for the release of the 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4 major update. During release cycles, AMO takes abnormally high load which sometimes causes interruptions in service. To avoid this situation we agreed to … Continue reading
Steve Krug would agree that thinking is a bad thing. Not that thinking in general is bad. I’ve found that it is actually a good thing. Thinking can be bad when it is a barrier between a user and what … Continue reading
Last week I learned a few things (the hard way) about PostgreSQL (pgsql) partitioning: You really have to read the “caveats” part of the manual (scroll down, very bottom) Server config matters (SET constraint_exclusion = on;) if you want to … Continue reading
So we decided to use SVN because it’s cooler and more modern. It’s not so bad, especially for webapps. We like the atomic commits, webdav, yadda yadda. You know why it’s better than CVS we aren’t going to regurgitate that … Continue reading
The new addons.mozilla.org (AMO) is up and running through its first peak load time without major issues. We will continue to monitor site performance today to verify that our performance adjustments indeed solved our load issues. What did we do? … Continue reading