I appreciate a ton what you guys achieve, many thanks!! Rupert On Dec 7, 2015 23:28, "Gilles Dubuc" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > This is the monthly report from the Wikimedia Performance team. > > ## Our progress ## > > * Availability. We've done a major overhaul of the ObjectCache interfaces. > Many > factory methods were deprecated or removed, reducing it to just four simple > entry points. New docs at > > https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/classObjectCache.html#details > > We've written a new IExpiringStore interface for convenient TTL constants, > e.g. $cache::TTL_WEEK. See > > https://doc.wikimedia.org/mediawiki-core/master/php/interfaceIExpiringStore.html > > We've migrated most use of wfGetMainCache() to WANObjectCache. Work > continued on the librarization of BagOStuff, Memcached, and other object > cache classes. > > * Performance testing infrastructure. We've created dedicated dashboards > for portals: > > https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/webpagetest-portals > > And for mobile: > > https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/mobile-webpagetest > > We now test one page using real 3G connections (from San Francisco and > Bangalore) and test other pages using the following physical devices: > iPhone 6, iPad mini 2 and Moto G. > > * Media stack. We've extended Thumbor with 12 small plugins to meet our > needs and match our existing thumbnailing feature set. This includes > support for all the file formats in use on Commons. The Thumbor Vagrant > stack is now very close to having all the moving parts needed in > production, with basic Vagrant roles for Varnish and Swift having been > written to that end. Our objective is to finish the work on VM by the > holidays and have it ready to be showcased and discussed collectively at > the developer summit in a breakout session. > > * ResourceLoader. We've written a new mw.requestIdleCallback API for > scheduling deferred tasks. We've removed usage of the msg_resource_links > DB table. We now use message config from the module registry directly. > We've migrated MessageBlobStore msg_resource DB table to an object cache > (to be deployed in January 2016): > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T113092 > > ## How are we doing? ## > > Client-side performance has remained stable over the past month. Save > Timing > has also remained stable, around the 1s median mark. > > The job queue's health improved greatly after adding a new server to the > pool, with the job queue size dropping drastically and the 99th percentile > job processing time going from one day to one hour: > > * https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/job-queue-health > > There was a small scare about a sudden increase of the SpeedIndex value > across the board: > > https://grafana.wikimedia.org/dashboard/db/webpagetest > > But it was entirely explained by the fundraising banner, which doesn't > appear immediately on pageload. SpeedIndex measures the time it takes for > the above-the-fold area to "settle" visually. The banner appears late and > pushes the content down, which delays the time when visual changes stop > happening for the above-the-fold area. > > Until next time, > Aaron, Gilles, Peter, Timo, and Ori. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
