[tor-bugs] #19909 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Think about switching to Balrog for our server side Tor Browser update components

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#19909: Think about switching to Balrog for our server side Tor Browser update
components
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 Reporter:  gk                        |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  task                      |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                            |  Actual Points:
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Description changed by gk:

Old description:

> While discussing #19890 with Mozilla engineers we came across the topic
> on how we handle our server-sde update part. It turns out that they
> basically did back then what we are doing now. They recommended to look
> at Balrog once we believe our needs do not scale anymore/or the system
> feels like being messed up etc. See: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Balrog for
> details.

New description:

 While discussing #19890 with Mozilla engineers we came across the topic on
 how we handle our server-side update part. It turns out that they
 basically did back then what we are doing now. They recommended to look at
 Balrog once we believe our needs do not scale anymore/or the system feels
 like being messed up etc. See: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Balrog for details.

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