<div dir="ltr">Hooray! I have switched most of my tools over, taking care to put long-running queries (including PetScan queries) on the analytics server. Initial tests see a ~5x improvement in query time!<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:25 AM Dan Andreescu <<a href="mailto:dandreescu@wikimedia.org">dandreescu@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">In case you are tempted to overlook this, I'm here to change your mind. This is a <b>BIG </b>deal. These servers are so much better and faster and smarter, it's beautiful.<div><br></div><div>Also, small side note: stay tuned for better analytics-oriented databases being made available on our cloud over the next quarter.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Bryan Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bd808@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">bd808@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Bryan Davis <<a href="mailto:bd808@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">bd808@wikimedia.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> After more than a year of effort by the DBA team, a new set of Wiki<br>
> Replica servers are ready for full use by Cloud Services users. The<br>
> new servers are faster, have more disk space, and are using updated<br>
> software and configuration that corrects many historic problems with<br>
> replica drift and security.<br>
><br>
> See the technical blog post for full details: <><br>
><br>
> TL;DR:<br>
> - Change your tools and scripts to use:<br>
> - `*.web.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` (real-time response needed)<br>
> - `*.analytics.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` (batch jobs; long queries)<br>
> - Replace `*` with either a shard name (e.g. `s1`) or a wikidb name<br>
> (e.g. `enwiki`).<br>
> - The new servers **do not** support user created databases/tables<br>
> because replication can't be guaranteed. See the blog post for more<br>
> information.<br>
> - `tools.db.svc.eqiad.wmflabs` (also known as `tools.labsdb`) will<br>
> continue to support user created databases and tables.<br>
> - Report any bugs you find with these servers in Phabricator using the<br>
> #Data-Services tag.<br>
<br>
</span>And the missing URL to the blog post:<br>
<<a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/70/new_wiki_replica_servers_ready_for_use/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/phame/post/view/70/new_wiki_replica_servers_ready_for_use/</a>><br>
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Bryan<br>
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[[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA<br>
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