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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…

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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.

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.

Web Perf Hero: Amir Sarabadani

Today we recognize Amir’s work over the past six months which cut latencies by half!

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.

Web Perf Hero: Siddharth VP

Siddharth VP (@SD0001) implemented Package files for Gadgets in T198758. This enables gadget developers to bundle JSON files, unpacked via…

Web Perf Hero: Umherirrender

@Umherirrender has initiated and carried out significant improvements to the performance of MediaWiki user preferences (T278650, T58633 , and T291748).…

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June 2021 Datacenter Switchover

In June 2021, most user traffic was switched from our primary Virginia datacenter to our secondary one in Texas. This post covers how the swtichover went and the issues that came up.