When Partitioning Database Tables, EXPLAIN your queries
The past week or so I’ve been spending most of my time on the Socorro crash-reporting server software. One if the important things I’ve learned this week is that while database partitions solve some...
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Crash! Bang! Boom!
If you were one of the lucky users who tried to do a nightly update on Windows between 5am and 11am PDT Tuesday morning, you were probably treated to this dialog when you launched your new Firefox:...
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Debugging Official Builds (or, how cool is the Mozilla symbol server?)
Not infrequently, there are bugs filed in Mozilla by Smart People who want to help and who are experiencing an odd behavior or a bug. They want to help, but they really don’t want to spend the time to...
View ArticleUsing crash-stats-api-magic
A while back, I wrote the tool crash-stats-api-magic which allows custom processing of results from the crash-stats API. This tool is not user-friendly, but it can be used to answer some pretty...
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