[Labs-l] [Labs-announce] New Wiki Replica servers ready for use

[Dan Andreescu]

In case you are tempted to overlook this, I'm here to change your mind.
This is a *BIG *deal.  These servers are so much better and faster and
smarter, it's beautiful.

Also, small side note: stay tuned for better analytics-oriented databases
being made available on our cloud over the next quarter.

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808 at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> > After more than a year of effort by the DBA team, a new set of Wiki
> > Replica servers are ready for full use by Cloud Services users. The
> > new servers are faster, have more disk space, and are using updated
> > software and configuration that corrects many historic problems with
> > replica drift and security.
> >
> > See the technical blog post for full details: <>
> >
> > TL;DR:
> > - Change your tools and scripts to use:
> >   - `*.web.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` (real-time response needed)
> >   - `*.analytics.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` (batch jobs; long queries)
> > - Replace `*` with either a shard name (e.g. `s1`) or a wikidb name
> > (e.g. `enwiki`).
> > - The new servers **do not** support user created databases/tables
> > because replication can't be guaranteed. See the blog post for more
> > information.
> > - `tools.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` (also known as `tools.labsdb`) will
> > continue to support user created databases and tables.
> > - Report any bugs you find with these servers in Phabricator using the
> > #Data-Services tag.
>
> And the missing URL to the blog post:
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/
> 70/new_wiki_replica_servers_ready_for_use/>
>
> Bryan
> --
> Bryan Davis              Wikimedia Foundation    <bd808 at wikimedia.org>
> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services          Boise, ID USA
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