Simetrical wrote:
You'll see
there are fundraiser blog posts being linked from the
sitenotice. We could really do with one about the technical structure,
the *remarkable* feat we manage of running this site on nearly nothing
and the fact that more money = better service.
Is there anyone who knows the structure well enough to describe it
simply and has time to write something quickly? Presumably someone
should stick around for the "why don't you ..." questions in the
comments.
There are a fair number of such descriptions around. I was just
looking at this earlier tonight to clarify a point I was unsure of
(how requests were sent to the closest Squid cluster):
http://www.slideshare.net/kapil/wikimediaarchitecture/
Fantastic to see people give out permission to use *my* copyrighted
material in several places without blinking... :)
(although that db diagram on slide 27 is actually made by Domas, used
with his permission of course ;)
The originals are here:
http://www.nedworks.org/~mark/presentations/
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Mark Bergsma <mark(a)wikimedia.org>
System & Network Administrator, Wikimedia Foundation