User:Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)/Architecture 2018

This is just an "if Daniel was King" brain dump, it’s not sorted or qualified in any way, and rather incomplete.

If Daniel was king, these would be the hot platform topics we would focus on in 2018:

Addressing Database Scalability issues
Addressing tech debt, improving test coverage
Making all of MW core aware of Multi-Content-Revisions
Alternatives to mediawiki/vendor, including JS libraries
Strategy for dependency tracking / change propagation; Future of the JobQueue (see DependencyEngine)
Deciding on which platform we need to support for 3rd parties (SOA vs LAMP, node.js or not...).
Future of deployment (at WMF and 3rd parties): Vagrant vs Docker vs Kubernetes...
JS framework experiments and consolidation (React vs Vue vs OOUI, ResourceLoader)
Deciding on support level for old software on the client side (what needs to work without JS? what needs to work with old browsers? this is mostly product, but highly tech-dependent)
Overhauling the code review process (cross-team, cross-org, volunteers, 3rd party pros)
The future of Parsoid, WikiText 2.0, etc
Unified strategy for offline reading support (mostly product, but highly tech-dependent)
“Content Assembly at the edge” (Reading/Web/Projects/NewMobileWebsite etc)
Support for multilingual wikis (especially for anonymous users)
Status and Future of Multi-Datacenter capabilities