Having grown up in Chicagoland for most of my school aged years and always wanting to work in the Sears Tower, it’s neat to come to work for a couple days in Mozilla’s new Toronto digs!
View’s awesome but weather’s been cloudy/raining so no cool pictures. Takes some getting used to too.
We’ve been pushing production traffic out of our China colo for about a month now. One of my concerns was how well this site would serve our global user base and how well the Netscaler’s dynamic GSLB would work. I didn’t want users being sent to this data center who should really goto San Jose […]
Just a quick followup to Monday’s blog and yesterday’s change. To recap, during Tuesday’s maintenance window I added the China data center into GSLB for www.mozilla.com.
Even to the untrained eye it’s pretty obvious when I made the change!
As I mentioned before, if you inadvertantly find yourself hitting the China data center, please file a […]
Over the past year we’ve talked about our market share in China (since last April anyways). Li Gong joined Mozilla and in June we had an office. In August I was in China with Justin to setup office infrastructure (phones, vpn) and shop for data center space.
In December I was back […]
Mozilla’s current GSLB (global server load balancing[1]) solution (Citrix Netscalers) is a mix of active proximity probes and static map assignments.
The algorithm first checks to see if there’s a match in the static maps and then falls back to proximity metrics. If that’s missing, it’ll round-robin through all the GSLB sites (effectively three - […]
This is part an homage to John O’Duinn and in part to win a wager with someone over how quickly I could get a datacenter up. Twelve hours was what I said I could get it done in.
The actual start time may be up for debate. I started my timer from the moment […]
As mentioned during the Monday meetings, we’ll be deploying a farm of Mac Minis to augment our Firefox performance cluster.
Here’s the dilemma - 50 power bricks converting AC to DC is a waste of heat and space (and my time managing Apple’s 6′ power cables) and makes me having to find a PDU with 50 […]
I’ve been trying to figure out if a MySQL Cluster would make sense in our environment and if it’s worth the complexity. I think so but I can’t find enough information online to answer some nagging questions.
Nearly any “dynamic” web application we have is backed by MySQL and we have several “clusters” using MySQL’s […]
Today was filled with a long, exhausting work day interrupted by lunch at a nearby seafood place Li and everyone at the office took us to. I think the feeling was that this place was average but to my untrained Chinese tastes, the food sure was good.
We met Mi Jai after breakfast (and […]
In China now, after a 12+ hour flight from San Francisco. Got in about 4-5 hours ago (I’m all screwed up on time right now).
It’s overcast and muggy and reminds me of Chicago summers. Amazingly like Chicago actually except that I smell exhaust fumes (like Tijuana). And people smoke (a lot more than I’ve become […]
