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2012, first months
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:date: 21-01-2012
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:category: thoughts
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A lot of changes in these last months. First of all, I've started to
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work for `Mozilla <http://mozilla.org>`_, on the Services team, where I am working on
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web services and scalability. Basically, what we are trying to do at services
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is to provide a way for developers to make web services able to scale out of
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the box.
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Our most visible and known project, so far, is Firefox Sync, which allows to synchronize
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browsing data (tabs, passwords, history, etc.) among different instances of
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Firefox. We are also building other things, such as a way to get metrics
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easily, a web service based queue, etc. Our primary consumers are
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people inside Mozilla, and we want to help them having a simple way to create,
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deploy and scale their apps. The project is named "sagrada", and you
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can find some more information about it on `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 far, this have been
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a pretty amazing experience. Part of this is explainable by the fact that the
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team is made of amazing folks, all with a strong experience in different
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topics, so I'm learning things™.
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I am currently practicing a bit my C++ to do crypto related things (I may or
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may not talk about this later on this web-logs) and it's great (well, it
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remembers me why I love python for so many things, but it makes me think closer
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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 find
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it unexpected, and that's the case. I'm usually not a big fan of big cities and
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am a fairly strong defender of having and creating activities in the country side,
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to face the rural exodus problem, into other thingS.
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I didn't changed my opinion about that. However, I don't want to *start* by
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working remote, especially when working with a remote team. Having offices kind
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of help me to have a differentiation between my working place and home, which I
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find to be important.
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And, to be honest, I don't like Paris for unknown reasons: I
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haven't been there, so it's a big over-generalisation to say that it's not
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good 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 with 3
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other persons. We have room, all like good food and…
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they are not 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 here, and I
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kind of like the way it is possible to find alternative related things in here.
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I found a `CSA <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community-supported_agriculture>`_,
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some people interested by agriculture related problems and I like where things
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seems to be going.
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So, new job, new house, new city, things are going forward and that's great.
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Oh, and I will try to post some more technical articles soon,
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I'm missing them :)
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