Re: [Wikitech-l] learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 errors)

Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:41:34 -0400 From: Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah(a)wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikitech-l] learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 errors) Message-ID: <538DD08E.1000801(a)wikimedia.org> 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_%28si… 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 Wikipedia about WMF's server configuration appears to be outdated.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 > >