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+French Services Hackaton #1
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+:date: 2014-05-22 10:35
+:tags: python, mozilla
+:category: mozilla
+:author: Tarek Ziade
+
+The Mozilla Cloud Services team is quite big these days - we're around 40
+people I think. And it just got a little bit reorganized into smaller subteams.
+
+I am very happy about the new subteam I am part of: Alexis, Rémy and myself
+are the **French Cloud Services** team. We're still working on projects with
+other teams of course - but being a team in the same timezone and speaking
+the same native language helps a lot.
+
+One topic that is *owned* by our team is building and maintaining tools
+that help build, deploy & run web services.
+
+Currently, the three most active projects are:
+
+- `Loads <https://loads.readthedocs.org>`_ -- a distributed load testing tool we use to verify that a given
+  service scales.
+- `Circus <https://circus.readthedocs.org>`_ -- an extensible process supervisor we're using in all our deployments
+- `Cornice <https://cornice.readthedocs.org>`_ -- a Python framework on the top of Pyramid that helps you write
+  web services - as opposed to "web pages"
+
+
+Hackaton #1
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+
+Rémy & Alexis are in Rennes, and I am located not far from Dijon - so
+we're very close to each other. Closer than from our colleagues from the US
+or Canada. When the team was set, we've decided that we would gather for
+a couple of days once every month at the Mozilla Paris office to work on tools.
+
+That's what we did this week. And that event is open to the community - we had the pleasure to have
+Boris coming and working with us during those 2 days.
+
+We worked on the following topics:
+
+- We released the long overdue Circus 0.11
+- We made the Circus web dashboard compatible with several Circus instances.
+  In other words, you can now supervise processes that are running on several
+  servers from the same dashboard
+- We looked at some improvements in how Cornice publishes its APIs
+  specifications.
+
+But the most important task: we socialized, had fun around food/drinks.
+
+The next hackaton will be sometimes in June. I'll try to announce it
+so more people can join us.
+