Summary

Socorro Engineering team covers several projects:

• Socorro is the crash ingestion pipeline and Crash Stats web service for Mozilla's products like Firefox.
• Tecken is the symbols server for uploading, downloading, and symbolicating stacks.
• Buildhub2 is the build information index.
• Buildhub is the previous iteration of Buildhub2 that's currently deprecated and will get decommissioned soon.
• PollBot and Delivery Dashboard are something something.

This blog post summarizes our activities in June.

Highlights of June

• Socorro: Fixed the collector's support of a single JSON-encoded field in the HTTP POST payload for crash reports. This is a big deal because we'll get less junk data in crash reports going forward.
• Socorro: Reworked how Crash Stats manages featured versions: if the product defines a product_details/PRODUCTNAME.json file, it'll pull from that. Otherwise it calculates featured versions based on the crash reports it's received.
• Buildhub: deprecated Buildhub in favor of Buildhub2. Current plan is to decommission Buildhub in July.
• Across projects: Updated tons of dependencies that had security vulnerabilities. It was like a hamster wheel of updates, PRs, and deploys.
• Tecken: Worked on GCS emulator for local dev environment.
• All hands discussions:
  • GCP migration plan for Tecken and figure out what needs to be done.
  • Possible GCP migration schedule for Tecken and Socorro.
  • Migrating applications using Buildhub to Buildhub2 and decommissioning Buildhub in July.
  • What would happen if we switched from Elasticsearch to BigQuery?
  • Switching from Socorro's minidump-stackwalk to minidump-analyzer.
  • Re-implementing the Socorro Top Crashers and Signature reports using Telemetry tools and data.
  • Writing a symbolicator and Socorro-style signature generator in Rust that can be used for crash reports in Socorro and crash pings in Telemetry.
  • The crash ping vs. crash report situation (blog post coming soon).

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