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# Mozilla, first months
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A lot of changes in these last months. First of all, I've started to work for [Mozilla](http://mozilla.org), on the Services team, where I am
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working on web services and scalability. Basically, what we are trying
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to do at services is to provide a way for developers to make web
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services able to scale out of the box.
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Our most visible and known project, so far, is Firefox Sync, which
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allows to synchronize browsing data (tabs, passwords, history, etc.)
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among different instances of Firefox. We are also building other things,
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such as a way to get metrics easily, a web service based queue, etc. Our
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primary consumers are people inside Mozilla, and we want to help them
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having a simple way to create, deploy and scale their apps. The project
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is named "sagrada", and you can find some more information about it on
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[our public wiki](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sagrada)
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All of what we do, we do it in the open. So you can have a look at [the
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different pieces of code we wrote](http://github.com/mozilla-services)
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and use them / contribute if you want to.
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I will not dig in to all the details of what I have been doing, but so
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far, this have been a pretty amazing experience. Part of this is
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explainable by the fact that the team is made of amazing folks, all with
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a strong experience in different topics, so I'm learning things™.
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I am currently practicing a bit my C++ to do crypto related things (I
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may or may not talk about this later on this web-logs) and it's great
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(well, it remembers me why I love python for so many things, but it
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makes me think closer to the metal ;)). I love this job.
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Second, I moved to Paris. Yes, Paris. Some of you who know me a bit may
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find it unexpected, and that's the case. I'm usually not a big fan of
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big cities and am a fairly strong defender of having and creating
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activities in the country side, to face the rural exodus problem, into
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other thingS.
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I didn't changed my opinion about that. However, I don't want to *start*
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by working remote, especially when working with a remote team. Having
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offices kind of help me to have a differentiation between my working
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place and home, which I find to be important.
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And, to be honest, I don't like Paris for unknown reasons: I haven't
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been there, so it's a big over-generalisation to say that it's not good
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for me. The reality is that I have no idea of what Paris is, and if I'll
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like it or not.
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I found a really nice house (yeah, a house\!) in Paris and am sharing it
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with 3 other persons. We have room, all like good food and… they are not
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geeks, which is a big win for me: work is work and home is home.
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So far, Paris had been really nice. A lot of things are going on in
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here, and I kind of like the way it is possible to find alternative
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related things in here. I found a
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[CSA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture),
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some people interested by agriculture related problems and I like where
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things seems to be going.
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So, new job, new house, new city, things are going forward and that's
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great.
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Oh, and I will try to post some more technical articles soon, I'm
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missing them :)
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