Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019
Looking back at our ups and downs. Including joining the W3C, implementing Paint Timing in upstream WebKit, and research on perceived performance.
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Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018
Looking back at our ups and downs. Including a literature review, multi-DC prep, and a new ata center in Singapore.
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2017
Reduce Wikipedia’s time-to-logo Thanks to the new Preload web standard developed by the W3C WebPerf working group, we were able…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016
Looking back at our ups and downs. Including HTTP/2 deployment, metric collection improvements, and the begining of our journey to Thumbor.
How we’re building our Kubernetes pipeline in GitLab
Our deployment pipeline helps our developers build, test, and release Docker images to our production Kubernetes. Now we’re migrating the pipeline to GitLab and seizing the chance to refine our tools.
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.
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.