Running Wikipedia on Bare Metal, Open Source, and a Healthy Dose of Caching
K.1.105 (La Fontaine) | Day 1 | 15:00 - 15:25 | Speakers: effie mouzeli
Abstract
At Wikimedia Foundation, we run Wikipedia, the world's favourite encyclopædia and one of the top ten websites of the Internet! No unicorns, just hardware, open source, and a small engineering org.
This talk pulls back the curtain on the stack that keeps Wikipedia fast, reliable, and resilient at global scale. Caching layers, databases, microservices, and Kubernetes are all stitched together to serve the world.
We'll also touch on how we've brought our 25-year-old monolith into the cloud-native era, and discuss the challenges we're navigating as the ongoing ~~rise of the machines~~ surge in LLM traffic changes the game.
Speakers
Effie spent several years in small organisations. Currently an SRE at the Wikimedia Foundation, she is counting Wikipedia’s rabbit holes so you don’t have to. [citation needed] She’s co-chaired SREcon23 and SREcon24 EMEA, and has been a long-time contributor. Her limited written work include a thesis no one read, a defunct Twitter account and sneaking a couple of articles into 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.
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