Blog of Data » Blog Archive » How glow.mozilla.org gets its dataI’m sure you’ve heard by now, Firefox 4 is officially released. The Metrics team has done our part by working with webdev to release a new real-time download visualization: http://glow.mozilla.org/ The basic backend flow is like this: The various load balancing clusters that host download.mozilla.org are configured to log download requests to a remote syslog server. The remote server is running r
