Thanks Sumana, That's good info to have. I'll look through those links.
That diagram may make its way into the presentation that I'm drafting. The presentation has balooned to an alarming length already but I'm going to try to complete it in outline form before pruning. If someone else makes presentation slides available about infrastructure under a license that allows reuse I would greatly appreciate it. By the way, I appreciated the overview of UX in your keynote [1]. Pine [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Keynote_by_Sumana_Harihareswara > Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:41:34 -0400 > From: Sumana Harihareswara <[email protected]> > To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wikitech-l] learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 > errors) > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, Pine. > > I, too, am interested in building our understanding of our TechOps > infrastructure. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Presentations has some > explanations of some parts, as does http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/ . I > welcome more links to guides/overviews. > > At the recent Zurich hackathon, other developers agreed that it would be > good to have a guide to Wikimedia's digital infrastructure, especially > how MediaWiki is used. > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Overview_of_Wikimedia_infrastructure is > .... a homepage with approximately nothing on it right now except this > diagram of our server architecture: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Server_Architecture_%28simplified%29.svg > > You might find the Performance Guidelines illuminating > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Performance_guidelines and you might also > like the recent tech talk about how we make Wikipedia fast, by Ori > Livneh and Aaron Schulz, recently - see > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PqJuZ1_B6w (I don't know when the video > is going up on Commons). > > -- > Sumana Harihareswara > Senior Technical Writer > Wikimedia Foundation > > > On 05/30/2014 06:30 PM, ENWP Pine wrote: > > > > Ori, thanks for following up. > > > > I think I saw somewhere that there is a list of postmortems for tech ops > > disruptions > > that includes reports like this one. Do you know where the list is? I tried > > a web search > > and couldn't find a copy of this report outside of this email list. > > > > I personally find this report interesting and concise, and I am interested > > in > > understanding more about the tech ops infrastructure. Reports like this one > > are useful in building that understanding. If there's an overview of tech > > ops > > somewhere I'd be interested in reading that too. The information on English > > Wikipedia about WMF's server configuration appears to be outdated. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Pine > > > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
