Will Kahn-Greene    Observability Team is a team dedicated to the problem domain and discipline of Observability at Mozilla. We own, manage, and support monitoring infrastructure and tools supporting Mozilla products and services. Currently this includes Sentry and crash ingestion related services Crash Stats ...

Will Kahn-Greene    Observability Team is a team dedicated to the problem domain and discipline of Observability at Mozilla. We will own, manage, and support infrastructure and tools supporting Mozilla products and services. Currently this includes crash ingestion related services: Crash Stats and crash ingestion...

Will Kahn-Greene    Summary This post talks about a stability problem we have with Tecken, some work we’re doing to make it better, and the steps to reproduce the problem in a local dev environment. Read more... min remaining to read

Will Kahn-Greene    Project time: weeks impact: improved visibility on set of crash reports by fixing symbolication and signatures better understanding of consequences of sampling Firefox Windows lt; . ESR crash reports Summary In November, , we wrote up a bug in the Tecken product to support...

Will Kahn-Greene    Summary took forever. At the same time, it kind of flew by. is already moving along, so this post is a month late. Here’s the retrospective of Socorro engineering in . Read more... min remaining to read

Will Kahn-Greene    What is it Bleach is a Python library for sanitizing and linkifying text from untrusted sources for safe usage in HTML. Bleach v . . released Bleach . . cleans up some issues in linkify and with the way it uses html lib so it’s easier to reason about. It also adds support for Python . and...

Will Kahn-Greene    Project time: years impact: radically reduced risk of data leaks due to misconfigured permissions centralized and simplified configuration and management of fields normalization and validation performed during processing documentation of data reviews, data caveats, etc reduced risk of bugs...

Will Kahn-Greene    Today is Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day where I spend some time taking stock of things and maybe move some projects to the done pile. In June, I ran a Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day for Mozilla Data Org because the idea really struck a chord with me and we were about to embark on...

Will Kahn-Greene    I went to NormConf , but didn’t attend the whole thing. It was entirely online as a YouTube livestream for something like hours split into three sessions. It had a very active Slack instance. I like doing post conference write ups because then I have some record of what I was thinking at the...

Will Kahn-Greene    Installing Windows I work at Mozilla. We get a laptop refresh periodically. I got a new laptop that I was going to replace my older laptop with. I’m a software engineer and I work on services that are built using Docker and tooling that runs on Linux. This post covers my attempt at setting...