Pine, two more: * https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Schulz-performance.pdf - the slides about "Full Stack Performance" by Aaron Schulz from http://www.meetup.com/SF-Web-Performance-Group/events/182182062/ * Faidon Liambotis's dotScale talk on the Wikimedia infrastructure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=646mJu5f2cQ
I added both to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Presentations#2014 . Sumana Harihareswara Senior Technical Writer Wikimedia Foundation On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 3:24 PM, ENWP Pine <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
