Wikimedia Platform Engineering/Site performance and architecture/status

Last update on: 2012-11-28

2012-07-20
Aaron and Andrew Garrett are working on job queue improvements. Tim is working on Apache configuration cleanup. Antoine is working on normalizing labs and production configurations

2012-07-monthly
Aaron Schulz and Andrew Garrett have been working on job queue improvements, Tim Starling on Apache configuration cleanup, and Antoine Musso on normalizing Labs and production configurations.

2012-08-monthly
Tim Starling wrote a new Redis-based client for session handling. This will be important for the Virginia Datacenter Migration.

2012-11-28
Support needed for more complex data structures (lists,sets) in memcached (with atomic updates) is awaiting more review and testing. The coding is essentially done (Change-Id: Ic27088488f8532f149cb4b36e156516f22880134).