Hi,
I'm happy to share that the next Web Perf Hero award (for 2023 Q4) goes to
TK-999, in recognition of their contributions, which made a huge positive
impact on the performance of Wikimedia software.
TK-999 worked on improving MediaWiki’s autoloading mechanism <
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/853972> (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274041) specifically for classes which
have been namespaced, by including them in the classmap. This means our
autoloader will not spend significant amounts of time searching for files
in directories, but rather just do a direct lookup. This approach is
particularly optimized for speed and as a result, Wikipedia’s backend
response time gained a 20% increase in the portion of requests that
complete within 50ms.
This award is given once a quarter, and manifests as a Phabricator badge.
More information and past recipients:
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Web_Perf_Hero_award
Phabricator badge:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/badges/view/17/
-- Derick Alangi, on behalf of the MediaWiki Platform Team