Hi, Missed adding a link directly to the blog post on Wikimedia Techblog, here is it: https://techblog.wikimedia.org/2024/01/16/web-perf-hero-mate-szabo/. Enjoy! :)
Regards! On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:45 AM Derick Alangi <dalangi-...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm happy to share that the next Web Perf Hero award (for 2023 Q4) goes to > TK-999, in recognition of their contributions, which made a huge positive > impact on the performance of Wikimedia software. > > TK-999 worked on improving MediaWiki’s autoloading mechanism < > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/853972> ( > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274041) specifically for classes which > have been namespaced, by including them in the classmap. This means our > autoloader will not spend significant amounts of time searching for files > in directories, but rather just do a direct lookup. This approach is > particularly optimized for speed and as a result, Wikipedia’s backend > response time gained a 20% increase in the portion of requests that > complete within 50ms. > > This award is given once a quarter, and manifests as a Phabricator badge. > More information and past recipients: > https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web_Perf_Hero_award > > Phabricator badge: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/view/17/ > > > -- Derick Alangi, on behalf of the MediaWiki Platform Team > -- *Derick Alangi (he/his/him)* Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform @ MediaWiki Engineering Group, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimedia-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1bt7_0VpGyvCZYAJeIJFQUHL_7MnRq4mQMzUbCBE6qZI-2045168444&key=YAMMID-48755499&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwikimediafoundation.org%2F>
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