The first front end cache we used on AMO was the Citrix NetScaler. I’ve complained about it’s API before but apparently never announced the library I wrote to purge items from the cache. So, a little late, but I have some reusable PHP code that will talk to your NetScaler and let you expire objects. [...]
Also tagged AMO, caching, code, Python, scalabilityI reached my hand into the barrel of problems our migration to Python is going to cause and came up with Localization. It figures. First out of the chute was the .po files. It turns out the actual formatting is different between the two languages. PHP uses %1$s for its substitutions, but python uses either [...]
Also tagged AMO, code, L10n, Mozilla, PythonThe AMO team met in Mountain View last week to develop a 2010 plan. We’ve been wanting to change some key areas of our development flow for a while but we needed to make sure time was budgeted in the overall AMO and Mozilla goals. As usual, the timeline will be tight, but the AMO [...]
Also tagged AMO, caching, CakePHP, Django, Git, hindsight, L10n, Mozilla, Python, scalability, SVNOne of the things that gets a lot of news time these days is XSS. There are a lot of places that explain what it is and how to prevent it but most are oversimplified or don’t provide real world examples. I thought I’d explain a couple of the ways AMO attempts to prevent it. [...]
Also tagged AMO, CakePHP, Mozilla, securityStruggling with scalability on AMO is nothing new but the tools we use to solve the problems have changed over time. Here is a bit of information on the performance evolution AMO has gone through. I wanted to link to the wayback machine for all our old versions, but I get “Redirect Errors” for the [...]
Also tagged AMO, caching, Mozilla, MySQL, scalabilityI’ve been playing with CakePHP’s session code lately and ran across an interesting (read: nerdy) problem with cookies on AMO. First, some background: The uniqueness of a cookie in the browser is determined by all the attributes when it’s set (not just it’s name). That means I can have multiple cookies named AMOv3 as long [...]
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