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Category: Cloud Services
Toolforge Jobs Framework
By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team This post continues the discussion of Toolforge updates as…
Toolforge GridEngine Debian 10 Buster migration
In accordance with our operating system upgrade policy, we should migrate our servers to Debian Buster.
Toolforge and Grid Engine
By Arturo Borrero González, Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Cloud Services Team One of the most important and successful products provided…
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.
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.
Digging deeper into Quarry
Wikimedia Cloud Services is planning improvements to the Quarry service.
Introducing Database as a Service on Cloud VPS
This post introduces a new service, Database as a service, on Cloud VPS.
Cinder on Cloud VPS
This post explores the new Openstack Cinder feature for Cloud VPS.
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.