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The journey to Thumbor, part 2: thumbnailing architecture

To understand why Thumbor is a good fit, it’s important to understand where it fits in our overall thumbnailing architecture. A lot of historic constraints come into play, where Thumbor could be adapted to meet those needs.

Improving time-to-logo performance with preload links

Thanks to a new web standard, we’ve recently deployed a small performance improvement that highlights some of the unique challenges we encounter on Wikimedia sites.

The journey to Thumbor, part 1: rationale

Making Thumbor production-ready for Wikimedia is a journey that started a year and a half ago. Let’s look at the rationale for this project.

Looking back: improvements to edit save time

Is it faster to save articles on Wikipedia than it was a year ago?

Investigating a performance improvement

When a performance improvement seems too good to be true, it’s time to investigate in depth and find out what happened.

How we made editing Wikipedia twice as fast

Over the past six months we deployed a new technology that sped up Wikipedia’s backend application, reducing the median page-saving time for editors from about 7.5 seconds to 2.5 seconds.