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How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow

This is part one of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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Posted on: November 10, 2021 Last updated on: November 10, 2021 Comments: 0 Zbyszko Papierski
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The trouble with triples

This is part two of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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Posted on: November 10, 2021 Last updated on: November 10, 2021 Comments: 0 David Causse
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Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF

This is part three of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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Posted on: November 10, 2021 Last updated on: November 10, 2021 Comments: 0 Maryum Styles

In search of the perfect search for Wikipedia

In a recent project, the Android app team decided to improve one of their core experiences: searching for articles on Wikipedia. Our goal was to make the discovery process for readers more intelligent, personalized and efficient to present the right result at the right time.
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Posted on: February 22, 2021 Last updated on: February 23, 2021 Comments: 3 Robin Schoenbaechler

From Gerrit to Gitlab: join the discussion

Wikimedia Release Engineering is considering a move from Gerrit to Gitlab. Learn more about the reasoning and join the discussion.
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Posted on: September 21, 2020 Last updated on: September 21, 2020 Comments: 0 Tyler Cipriani

All code is built. Build what you can before you ship.

Every page request in the ResourceLoader pipeline benefits from compilation, minification, and bundling build steps but not every build step fits in the runtime space.
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Posted on: July 28, 2020 Last updated on: October 26, 2020 Comments: 0 Stephen Niedzielski

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