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%3E ( 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
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-ctr@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%3E ( 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
This looks great! Thanks for the work on this, TK-999.
Best,
*Johan Jönsson*Manager, Product Ambassadors Wikimedia Foundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 9:46 AM Derick Alangi dalangi-ctr@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%3E ( 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/
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Dear Derick and team,
Thank you for the award—I am humbled by the recognition. This was an interesting rabbit hole to dive into and I was happy to see the optimisation deliver such tangible results after the initial investigation was concluded. Looking forward to see the next interesting Perf Hero story!
Best regards, Máté Szabó (he/him/his) Staff Software Engineer mszabo@fandom.com
On 16 Jan 2024, at 09:45, Derick Alangi dalangi-ctr@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/
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