Web Perf Hero: Máté Szabó
We recognize the volunteer effort that increased Wikipedia’s backend responses that complete within 50ms by 20%.
Tag: PHP
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?
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2018
Looking back at our ups and downs.
Perf Matters at Wikipedia in 2016
Looking back at our ups and downs.
Web Perf Hero: Amir Sarabadani
Today we recognize Amir’s work over the past six months which cut latencies by half!
Web Perf Hero: Umherirrender
@Umherirrender has initiated and carried out significant improvements to the performance of MediaWiki user preferences (T278650, T58633 , and T291748).…
Profiling PHP in production at scale
We built an efficient sampling profiler for PHP. It runs continually in production on live requests, and generates trace logs and flame graphs.
2020: The Year in Vue
A look back at a year of experiences of using Vue within the Structured Data team.
Impact of using HTTP connection pooling for PHP applications at scale
This post explores the challenges of running PHP applications at a large scale and discusses the effect of using Envoy on MediaWiki applications.
Celebrating 600,000 commits for Wikimedia
A reflection on the developer services we offer and our community of developers.