While the Firefox Marketplace is being built, we are starting to make some fundamental changes in the way the Marketplace is constructed behind the scenes. In the beginning there was one big Django site that served all the requests back … Continue reading
For the last year or so addons.mozilla.org and marketplace.firefox.com have deployed primarily by pulling the entire project out of github. Required libraries were placed in a git submodule called vendor. Vendor was then a git submodule of our project, meaning … Continue reading
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
During the course of this week, a number of high-profile websites (like LinkedIn and last.fm) have disclosed possible password leaks from their databases. The suspected leaks put huge amounts of important, private user data at risk. What’s common to both … Continue reading
In case you missed last month’s blog post, a Beer and Tell is a monthly Mozilla Webdev gettogether involving cool hacks and malted beverages. We try to structure it like a series of lightning talks and — because all work … Continue reading
We use Graphite in Web Development to track metrics on our sites. For the Marketplace and Addons team, it has been a real eye opener into the state of our sites. One thing that I’ve wanted to add is information … Continue reading
Not all teams at Mozilla follow the same software development methodology. We’re free to design our own workflows, use whatever tools we want, and just generally work in whatever way is best for us. The one component that almost every … Continue reading
There are lots of ways to measure the performance of a site. On addons.mozilla.org we measure a few of them: how long it takes to render pages, the cache performance and responsiveness for content delivery networks globally. But with the … Continue reading
This is the second in a series of posts, focusing on issues around open sourcing your Django site and data privacy in Django. You’ll end up with production data in your Django database and that will likely contain different kinds … Continue reading
This is the first in series of posts, focusing on issues around open sourcing your Django site and data privacy in Django. A lot of people focus on open sourcing their Django libraries, but at Mozilla we open source the … Continue reading
