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<time datetime="2012-01-21T00:00:00+01:00">21 janvier 2012</time>
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<p>A lot of changes in these last months. First of all, I’ve started to work for <a href="http://mozilla.org">Mozilla</a>, 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.</p>
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<p>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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<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sagrada">our public wiki</a></p>
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<p>All of what we do, we do it in the open. So you can have a look at <a href="http://github.com/mozilla-services">the
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different pieces of code we wrote</a>
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and use them / contribute if you want to.</p>
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<p>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™.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>I didn’t changed my opinion about that. However, I don’t want to <em>start</em>
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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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<p>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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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture"><span class="caps">CSA</span></a>,
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some people interested by agriculture related problems and I like where
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things seems to be going.</p>
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<p>So, new job, new house, new city, things are going forward and that’s great.</p>
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<p>Oh, and I will try to post some more technical articles soon, I’m
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missing them :)</p>
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