New subject: learning Ops infrastructure (was: Re: 404 errors)

5 Jun 2014

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

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  Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 09:41:34 -0400
 From: Sumana Harihareswara &lt;sumanah(a)wikimedia.org&gt;
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 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
 > 
 >   		 	   		  

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