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Explore wiki project data faster with mwsql

Learn how the mwsql library makes it easier to download and work with SQL dump files in formats like Pandas dataframes or CSV.
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Posted on: June 13, 2022 Last updated on: June 15, 2022 Comments: 0 Slavina Stefanova

Toolforge Jobs Framework

By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team This post continues the discussion of Toolforge updates as…
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Posted on: March 18, 2022 Last updated on: March 16, 2022 Comments: 0 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Toolforge GridEngine Debian 10 Buster migration

In accordance with our operating system upgrade policy, we should migrate our servers to Debian Buster.
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Posted on: March 16, 2022 Last updated on: March 16, 2022 Comments: 0 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez

Toolforge and Grid Engine

By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team One of the most important and successful products provided…
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Posted on: March 14, 2022 Last updated on: March 14, 2022 Comments: 1 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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Pawing around with PAWS: recent updates to Wikimedia Cloud Services’ Jupyter notebooks instance

Learn more about recent updates to PAWS: A Web Service, Wikimedia Cloud Services’ Jupyter notebooks instance.
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Posted on: December 6, 2021 Last updated on: December 6, 2021 Comments: 0 Chico Venancio and WMCS Team
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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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Digging deeper into Quarry

Wikimedia Cloud Services is planning improvements to the Quarry service.
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Posted on: September 2, 2021 Last updated on: September 8, 2021 Comments: 0 Andrew Bogott and Joaquin Oltra Hernandez
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Introducing Database as a Service on Cloud VPS

This post introduces a new service, Database as a service, on Cloud VPS.
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Posted on: July 19, 2021 Last updated on: July 19, 2021 Comments: 1 Andrew Bogott
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Cinder on Cloud VPS

This post explores the new Openstack Cinder feature for Cloud VPS.
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Posted on: February 5, 2021 Last updated on: February 5, 2021 Comments: 2 Andrew Bogott
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A journey of a single step begins with a thousand miles

Sometimes a simple bugfix can take longer than expected, but seeing it through is worth the journey.
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Posted on: September 2, 2020 Last updated on: September 2, 2020 Comments: 1 Andrew Bogott
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