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Month: October 2021

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How we improved performance of a batch process from two days to five minutes

The Growth team recently improved the performance of a script that prepares data for usage in the mentor dashboard. Learn about how they decreased the average runtime of the script from more than 48 hours to less than five minutes.
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Posted on: October 29, 2021 Last updated on: October 29, 2021 Martin Urbanec
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Iterating on how we do NFS at Wikimedia Cloud Services

NFS is a central piece of infrastructure that is essential to services like Toolforge. Recently, the Cloud Services team at Wikimedia had been reviewing how we do NFS.
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Posted on: October 19, 2021 Last updated on: October 20, 2021 Comments: 1 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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Roundup: Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22

This year’s outreach programs were some of the most successful ever. This post highlights projects from Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22.
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Posted on: October 8, 2021 Last updated on: October 8, 2021 Comments: 0 Sarah R. Rodlund and Srishti Sethi

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