Technology report, 2007

Some of Wikipedia technology state summed up in annual report.

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4 Responses to Technology report, 2007

  1. tszming says:

    Great report.

    Btw, on page2, “The big picture”, MySQL is missing as one of the core component?

  2. haha, good catch, and I went to MySQL conference with this ;-D

  3. john allspaw says:

    “tuning kernels for our high-performance networking” – Domas, care to share anything you found here ?

  4. John, stuff like LVS would be very conservative at hash allocations, and as we maintain thousands of connections via LVS directors, increasing internal memory structures to facilitate those specific tasks helped a lot.

    Of course, there’re few minor issues like ones at http://dammit.lt/2006/09/12/mysql-tcp-network-tuning/