Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%. Continue reading “Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó”…
Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug The new “Excimer UI” option in WikimediaDebug generates flame graphs. What are flame graphs, and when do you need this? Continue reading “Flame graphs arrive in WikimediaDebug”…
Around the world: How Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment Learn why we transitioned the MediaWiki platform to serve traffic from multiple data centers, and the challenges we faced along the way. Continue reading “Around the world: How Wikipedia became a multi-datacenter deployment”…
From hell to HTML: releasing a Python package to easily work with Wikimedia HTML dumps Announcing mwparserfromhtml, a new library that makes it easy to parse the HTML content of Wikipedia articles Continue reading “From hell to HTML: releasing a Python package to easily work with Wikimedia HTML dumps”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019 Looking back at our ups and downs. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2019”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018 Looking back at our ups and downs. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018”…
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… Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2017”…
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016 Looking back at our ups and downs. Continue reading “Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016”…
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. Continue reading “Web Perf Hero: Valentín Gutierrez”…
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. Continue reading “What it takes to parse MediaWiki page titles… in Rust”…