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Wikimedia’s CDN: datacenter switchover

The 3rd and last article of a series that describes some of the changes to Wikimedia’s Content Delivery Network, including the replacement of Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
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Posted on: December 17, 2020 Last updated on: December 18, 2020 Comments: 3 Emanuele Rocca
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Wikimedia’s CDN: the road to ATS

The 2nd of a 3 part series that describes some of the changes to Wikimedia’s Content Delivery Network, including the replacement of Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
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Posted on: November 25, 2020 Last updated on: December 18, 2020 Comments: 1 Emanuele Rocca
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Wikimedia’s CDN up to 2018: Varnish and IPSec

The 1st of a 3 part series that will describe some of the changes, which included replacing Varnish with Apache Traffic Server (ATS) as the on-disk HTTP cache component of the CDN.
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Posted on: October 14, 2020 Last updated on: November 4, 2022 Comments: 1 Emanuele Rocca

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