Web Perf Hero: Valentín Gutierrez
Today we celebrate two numbers: 25% lower latency for ATS backend requests at the p75, and up to 1000X reduction of ATS disk read latency at the p999.
Recent Posts
HTTP/2 performance revisited
Deploying HTTP/2 support to the Wikimedia CDN significantly changed how browsers negotiate and transfer data during the page load process. We found regressions in performance during the transition and are sharing the lessons we learned.
Introducing Terraform support on Wikimedia Cloud VPS
Learn how Wikimedia Cloud VPS was adapted to work with Terraform.
Join the Wikimania Hackathon, August 12-14 2022!
The Wikimania 2022 Hackathon is a free, online event where anyone interested in Wikimedia technology can work together on projects, learn new skills, and meet other technical contributors. Don’t miss this opportunity to come together with other Wikimedia technical community members!
Building DReaMeRS: How and why we opened a datacenter in France
Content delivery networks (CDNs) are one of the modern building blocks of the Internet. This blog post highlights a recent addition to Wikimedia’s CDN setup.
What is in an edit? Automated detection of edit types on Wikipedia
Learn about a new Python library for automatically detecting and summarizing what content is changed by edits on Wikipedia.
New discovery tool for technical documentation
The Wikimedia Developer Portal guides technical audiences to key documentation and community resources. By organizing links into thematic sections focused on developer tasks, it helps people more easily find information about Wikimedia technology.
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.
Modernizing our tech stack for serving maps at Wikipedia
MediaWiki allows editors to contribute with geospatial content. Learn more about the internals of the map technology we use and the improvements introduced.
What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust
MediaWiki page titles are the primary identifiers for all wiki content – learn how they are validated, normalized and parsed and what it took to do so in Rust.