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Firefox data platform update
The data platform team is working on our core Telemetry system, the data pipeline and providing core datasets, with support from the Firefox data engineering and the Data tools team.To make new...
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Firefox data platform & tools update, Q1 2017
The data platform and tools teams are working on our core Telemetry system, the data pipeline, providing core datasets and maintaining some central data viewing tools.To make new work more visible, we...
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Firefox data platform & tools update, Q2 2017
Beta “main” ping submission delay analysis by :chutten.The data platform and tools teams are working on our core Telemetry system, the data pipeline, providing core datasets and maintaining some...
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Recording new Telemetry from add-ons
One of the successes for Firefox Telemetry has been the introduction of standardized data types; histograms and scalars.They are well defined and allow teams to autonomously add new instrumentation. As...
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Firefox data platform & tools update, Q3 2017
Mission Control showing content crashes per 1k usage hours.As the data platform & tools team we provide core tools for using data to other teams. This spans Firefox Telemetry, data storage and...
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Data preference changes in Firefox 58
As part of the Photon UI refresh, the Firefox data preferences were streamlined. Where previously for historic reasons we had two controls, we now have one.How the new Firefox data preferences...
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Know your limits
When building software systems, we usually deal with data from external sources. This can be user input, data coming from other systems, etc. My basic assumption on any external data is: don’t trust...
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Firefox Data engineering newsletter Q1 / 2018
As the Firefox data engineering teams we provide core tools for using data to other teams. This spans from collection through Firefox Telemetry, storage & processing in our Data Platform to making...
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Introducing Glean — Telemetry for humans
Introducing Glean — Telemetry for humansGlean logo — subtitled “telemetry for humans”When Firefox Preview shipped, it was also the official launch of Glean, our new mobile product analytics &...
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