This is incredible, thank you so much!

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Sammy Tarling
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation


On Mon, 24 Oct 2022, 15:51 Krinkle, <krin...@fastmail.com> wrote:

> I've done a major update to a number of diagrams on Wikitech.
>
> Usually, I don't mention an update here, but I'm highlighting it now as
> it's been a while since we mentioned them on-list and the community and
> foundation have grown a lot so some of these may be new to you.
>
> Given how much has changed in recent changes, I also included a changelog
> and a link to where in the docs you'd normally discover this diagram
> on-wiki:
>
> *== 1. File:Wikipedia_webrequest_2022.png
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_webrequest_2022.png>
> (Updated) ==*
>
> This is a highly simplified diagram, covering the general shape of our
> stack through the example of a typical Wikipedia webrequest.
>
> Previous:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Wikipedia_webrequest_flow_2020.png
> New:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Wikipedia_webrequest_2022.png
> Documentation: wikitech:MediaWiki_at_WMF
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_at_WMF> and
> wikitech:Caching_overview
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caching_overview>.
> Notable changes:
> * Change edge TLS termination ("HTTPS") from ats-tls to HAProxy. I wrote a
> "Caching overview § History
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caching_overview>" section.
> * Change appserver TLS from Nginx- to Envoy.
> * Add new MainStash DB.
> * Include storage ExternalStore DB, ParserCache DB, and Swift media.
> * Include services Shellbox, Mathoid, and Kask.
>
> *== 2. File:WMF_infrastructure_2022.png
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WMF_infrastructure_2022.png>
> (Updated) ==*
>
> This is a continous attempt at an overview of tier-1/user-facing
> infrastructure. It will likely never be complete from all POV, but.. it is
> more accurate and complete than it has been. Thanks to all that contributed
> by entertaining my many questions over the years.
>
> Previous (2016 by Elukey):
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/labs/4/4d/Infrastructure_overview.png
> New:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/WMF_infrastructure_2022.png
> Documentation: wikitech:Wikimedia_infrastructure
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_infrastructure> and
> wikitech:Purged <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Purged>
> Notable changes:
> * Add new Drmrs data center in Marseille, France.
> * Add new services: purged.go, EventStreams, Thumbor, mcrouter, Envoy,
> etcd.
> * Add new distinction for Multi-DC between primary and secondary data
> center.
> * Change sessionstore from Redis to Kask/Cassandra.
> * Change jobqueue from Redis to EventGate/Kafka.
> * Include distinct MediaWiki server roles and clusters.
> * Include high-level MediaWiki platform components.
> * Include example flow for "JobQueue job" and "CDN purge".
>
> *== 3. File:MediaWiki_infrastructure_2022.png
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_infrastructure_2022.png>
> (New) ==*
>
> Similar to WMF Infra diagram, but more abstract around DC and services,
> and more detailed within the platform. Including more core services, and
> recognising extensions as their own layer.
>
> New:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/MediaWiki_infrastructure_2022.png
> Documentation: wikitech:MediaWiki_at_WMF
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_at_WMF>
>
> *== 4. File:Wikipedia_Memcached_flow_2022.png
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Memcached_flow_2022.png>
> (Updated)*
>
> Previous:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Wikipedia_Memcached_flow_2020.png
> New:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Wikipedia_Memcached_flow_2022.png
> Documentation: wikitech:Memcached_for_MediaWiki
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Memcached_for_MediaWiki>
> Notable changes:
> * Include the three tiers of ParserCache.
> * Add WANCache legend to explain different keytypes you may encounter on
> the network.
> * Add full name of the mcrouter-with-onhost-tier service for greppability.
> * Add new WRStats service (T310662
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T310662>). This was part of Multi-DC
> work
> <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Performance_Team/Multi-DC_MediaWiki>
> to reduce primary DB writes and (not bi-di replicated) Redis use in
> AbuseFilter. This service also replaces the old "User ping limiter" in core
> and is now able to serve both use cases.
> * Remove "on-host: soon" labels. Adopting on-host memc for WANCache was
> considered not worth the added runtime complexity (T264604
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T264604>). Note that SRE's work on
> adding 10G network links for memcached hosts, and the addition of
> mcrouter-managed gutter pools take care of the general usecase that we were
> exploring on-host for. We kept it for ParserCache however (T244340
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T244340>.
>
> *== Edit link ==*
>
> As before, each diagram file page has an "Edit" link in the description
> that takes you directly to the open-source Diagrams.net web app (loading
> file read-only from Google Drive). You can fork by using "Save as" in the
> web app. See also: wikitech:Performance/Runbook/diagrams.net_conventions
> <https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Performance/Runbook/diagrams.net_conventions>
>
> -- Timo
>
>
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