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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.

Wikipedia and Apps: A Love Story

Wikimedia Foundation’s apps are an essential piece to meet our “this is for everyone” design principle. Wikimedia apps are designed with the philosophy of mobile first in mind.

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How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow

This is part one of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.

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The trouble with triples

This is part two of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.

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Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF

This is part three of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.

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How we improved performance of a batch process from two days to five minutes

The Growth team recently improved the performance of a script that prepares data for usage in the mentor dashboard. Learn about how they decreased the average runtime of the script from more than 48 hours to less than five minutes.

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Roundup: Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22

This year’s outreach programs were some of the most successful ever. This post highlights projects from Google Summer of Code 2021 and Outreachy Round 22.