diff --git a/_posts/2021-03-01-three-year-moziversary.md b/_posts/2021-03-01-three-year-moziversary.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a26054 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2021-03-01-three-year-moziversary.md @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +--- +permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/three-year-moziversary" +title: "Three-year Moziversary" +published_date: "2021-03-01 11:00:00 +0100" +layout: post.liquid +data: + route: blog + tags: + - mozilla +--- + +Has it really been 3 years? +I guess it has. +I joined Mozilla as a Firefox Telemetry Engineer in [March 2018][joinedmoz], I blogged twice already: [2019], [2020]. + +[joinedmoz]: https://fnordig.de/2018/02/18/a-new-job/ +[2019]: https://fnordig.de/2019/03/01/one-year-moziversary/ +[2020]: https://fnordig.de/2020/03/02/two-year-moziversary/ + +And now it's 2021. 2020 was nothing like I thought it would and still been a lot like I said last year at this point. +It's been Glean all over the year, but instead of working from the office and occasionally meeting my team in person, it's been working from home for 12 months now. + +In September of last year I officially became the Glean SDK tech lead and thus I'm now responsible for the technical direction and organisation of the whole project, +but really this is a team effort. +Throughout the year we made [Project FOG][fog] happen. At least the code is there and we can start migrating now. It's far from finished of course. + +[I blogged about Glean in 2021][glean-2021] and we're already seeing the first pieces of that plan being implemented. +After some reorganization the team I'm in grew again so now we have [Daniel], [Anthony] and [Frank] there as well (we're still Team "Browser Measurement III"). +This brings two parts of the Glean project closer together (not that it was far apart). + +[fog]: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/glean/index.html +[glean-2021]: https://fnordig.de/2020/12/18/glean-in-2021/ + +There's more work ahead, interesting challenges to tackle and projects to support in migrating to Glean. +To the next year and beyond! + +## Thank you + +Thanks to my team: [Bea], [Chris], [Travis], [Alessio], [Mike], [Daniel], [Anthony] and [Frank] +and also thanks to the bigger data engineering team within Mozilla. +And thanks to all the other people at Mozilla I work with. + +[Mike]: http://droettboom.com/ +[Chris]: https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/ +[Travis]: https://blogoftravis.wordpress.com/ +[Alessio]: https://www.a2p.it/wordpress/t +[Bea]: https://brizental.github.io/ +[Daniel]: http://www.relud.com/ +[Anthony]: https://acmiyaguchi.me/ +[Frank]: https://github.com/fbertsch