Wikimedia Engineering/Service and REST API team/status

Last update on: 2014-08-monthly

2014-08-monthly
August was mostly a month of travel and vacation for the service team. We deployed a first prototype of the RESTBase storage and API service in labs. We also presented on both Parsoid and RESTBase at Wikimania, which was well received.

Later in August computer science student Hardik Juneja joined the team as a part-time contractor. Working from Mumbai, he dived straight into complex secondary index update algorithms in the Cassandra backend. At the end of the month design work resumed, with the goal of making RESTBase easier to extend with additional entry points and bucket types.