diff --git a/_posts/2025-03-03-seven-year-moziversary.md b/_posts/2025-03-03-seven-year-moziversary.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64c2c9c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2025-03-03-seven-year-moziversary.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +--- +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/seven-year-moziversary" +title: "Seven-year Moziversary" +published_date: "2025-03-03 10:50:00 +0100" +layout: post.liquid +data: + route: blog +tags: + - mozilla +excerpt: | + Seven years as a Telemetry Engineer at Mozilla. +--- + +In March 2018 I started [a job as a Telemetry engineer at Mozilla][joinedmoz]. +Seven years later I'm still here on my Moziversary, as I was in [2019], [2020], [2021], [2022], [2023] and [2024]. + +Mozilla is not the same company it was when I joined. +No one on the C-level is here for as long as I am. +There have been 5 larger reorgs in the past year and two layoffs in different departments, plus the big round of layoffs at the Mozilla Foundation. +My part of the organization was moved around again and for the moment Data Engineering is nested under the Infrastructure Org. +Good colleagues left or were laid off. +Just recently my team shrunk again. +Notably I haven't posted anything under the [mozilla tag](/tagged/mozilla.html) since 2022, other than my Moziversary blog posts. + +<strike>All-Hands</strike> MozWeek[^1] Dublin happened. +The next one will be in Washington, D.C. +Probably one of the worst choices given the state of the USA right now, and I might just skip it. +I do hope for a team work week, but that's not decided yet. + +The one constant over the past years is my work on [Glean], which hasn't stopped. +We're finally putting dedicated effort to move legacy telemetry in Firefox Desktop over to Glean ([Are we Glean yet?][arewegleanyet]). +But still Glean isn't where I'd like it to be. +Some of the early decisions in its design are coming back to bite us, +the codebase grew significantly and could use a bit of cleanup, +we never got the time to work on performance and memory improvements and our chosen local data storage desperately needs an update. +Some of that was on my list last year already. +If only there were less distractions that pull me of this work again and again. +It's on my list of goals _again_ this year, so maybe it works out better this time. + +But other than that I don't know where Mozilla will be a year from now. +It's going to be a challenging year. + +## Thank you + +I'm in this job for seven years not only because I like the tech I get to work on, +but also because my colleagues make it a delight to come back to work every day. +Thanks to [Alessio], [Chris], [Travis] and [Abhishek] for being the Data Collection Tools team. +Also thanks to [Bruno], who was part of the team until recently. +There's countless other people at Mozilla, +inside Data Engineering but also across other parts of the organization, +that I got to connect, chat and work with. Thank you! + +[joinedmoz]: /2018/02/18/a-new-job/ +[2019]: /2019/03/01/one-year-moziversary/ +[2020]: /2020/03/02/two-year-moziversary/ +[2021]: /2021/03/01/three-year-moziversary/ +[2022]: /2022/03/04/four-year-moziversary/ +[2023]: /2023/03/01/five-year-moziversary/ +[2024]: /2024/03/12/six-year-moziversary/ +[Alessio]: https://www.a2p.it/ +[Chris]: https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/ +[Travis]: https://blogoftravis.wordpress.com/ +[Bruno]: https://rosahbruno.github.io/ +[Abhishek]: https://github.com/abhi-agg +[Glean]: https://github.com/mozilla/glean +[arewegleanyet]: https://arewegleanyet.com/ + +--- + +_Footnotes_: + +[^1]: Change everywhere. Those Mozilla work weeks were renamed by Marketing.