We use Graphite to see how the Firefox Marketplace and Add-ons sites are doing. But the sheer volume of traffic to Add-ons always gives some interesting graphs. A while back we were switching between different clusters for add-on version check … Continue reading
When I first joined the webdev group at Mozilla I was a Mercurial refugee who had never used git or github. I was always daunted by git and suddenly I had to learn it really fast! Fast forward to today … Continue reading
Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love HTML5* Shortly after I started at Mozilla in April, I was assigned my first project — developing the replacement for AMO’s statistics pages for add-on developers. The current page was in need of … Continue reading
Yesterday Wil Clouser wrote up a blog post detailing infrastructure changes for addons.mozilla.org in 2010. Notable changes are: Migrating from CakePHP to Django Moving from SVN to Git Continuous integration Faster deployment Processing data offline Improved documentation Take a look, … Continue reading
Recently I fixed bug 439269 (“AMO theme has unnecessary scrollbar at the bottom”) and thought it was an interesting bug for a few reasons. To summarize the issue, for no apparent reason in right-to-left languages a really long scrollbar would … Continue reading
The AMO API supports Fennec now. We pushed Bug 453517 to update services.addons.mozilla.org to work with the Fennec alpha and future Fennec versions.
We will be adjusting log collection to work with our CDN tonight during a maintenance window. We can’t guarantee that developer statistics (download counts and update pings) will be 100% continuous — so please comment here or file a bug … Continue reading
We attempted to push the AMO 3.4.3 update last night but ran into some problems. Our initial investigation is pointing to the advanced search queries taking far longer than the previous version. The slave databases couldn’t handle the load and … Continue reading
As previously mentioned we’re planning on updating addons.mozilla.org for the 3.4.2 changes tonight. There are 32 bugs that will be fixed with the update. Please let us know if you see any regressions or anything you’d like to see changed. … Continue reading
The AMO team is finalizing the latest update, 3.4.1. This is a bug-fix release addressing things like double escaping, improper L10n redirects, and category cleanup. A list of all the bugs targeted for this release is available. We’ll be committing … Continue reading
