How glow.mozilla.org gets its data

http://blog.mozilla.com/data/2011/03/22/how-glow-mozilla-org-gets-its-data/

by etaty • 15 years ago

84 13 15 years ago

blog.mozilla.com

http://glow.mozilla.org/

puredemo• 15 years ago

Great app. Africa doesn't seem to be much of a fan of FF4 though. ;p

yoda_sl• 15 years ago

It will be interesting to write a second kind of web app that show analytics break down in different manner: continent, timezone, and even cooler will be to see the correlation with the number of tweets about FF4 split on the same geolocation / timezeone when the data is available. I wonder too if the JSON data available will provide break down by OS platform.

dlsspy• 15 years ago

Some of what you're asking for you get by clicking on the bottom left.

cfinke• 15 years ago

It's a beautiful visualization. While browsing through the source code, I noticed that there are a few numeric keyboard shortcuts. "9" is especially handy!

IgorPartola• 15 years ago

Anyone have any idea of what SQLstream actually does/how it works? Looking at http://www.sqlstream.com/Products/products.htm all I see is marketing material aimed at execs.

brown9-2• 15 years ago

Try http://www.sqlstream.com/Products/productsTechSQLXMPLS.htm or http://www.sqlstream.com/Products/productstechnology.htm

sabat2• 15 years ago

Hrm. Happy to answer any questions. I work for SQLstream. (I'm not speaking officially for SQLstream at this moment, of course.) The upshot is that it's a realtime query and manipulation engine that works with standard SQL. There's a relatively simple SQL app running under SQLstream that gets the live data, does GEO IP lookup and other manipulation, and then vends it to a the webserver in 60-second chunks.

sambeau• 15 years ago

Why didn't they just get the location data from the geo-load balancers?

coderdude• 15 years ago

An interesting snippet from the Python backend:

  # We're not supposed to show downloads for these countries (607127#c10):
  # Cuba, Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Myanmar, Sudan. Go figure.
  REDACTED = ('CU', 'IR', 'SY', 'KP', 'MM', 'SD')

From https://github.com/jbalogh/glow/blob/master/glow.py

bbatsell• 15 years ago

Access to that particular bug ID is blocked:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=607127

Sephr• 15 years ago

Didn't Mozilla get a special exemption from the US government to allow them to export their crypto ("arms") to those countries? I don't see why they would try to hide the fact that they are allowing downloads from those countries.

yuhong• 15 years ago

http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3839831/M...

How glow.mozilla.org gets its data

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