[Labs-l] Reinstating memcache on tools project

[Jeremy Baron]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sure let's document new system, but BEFORE you turn previous down, not
> after you do that...

People had plenty of warning that needed to stop using memcache. If
anyone was relying on it being available for mediawiki then they
should have spoken up before the service was turned off.

> In normal production environment people first set up some alternative
> system they switch to and then shut down the old system, not the other
> way like here. Imagine other wmf ops would first shut down all squid
> servers and then started to look for some alternative... I guess
> people wouldn't be much happy about all sites being down until they
> figure it out.
>
> @Coren: yes we can shut it down, we can shut down all servers
> wikimedia project has... but is it a good idea?

Wow, petan. Seriously?

-Jeremy