Tom Hughes

If I understand https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T196092 correctly then traditionally mediawiki had an option to enabled UTF-8 during installation which would cause to explicitly use the utf8 encoding for tables but that have...

See also https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T194125 where they seem to suggest that utf8mb4 won't actually work. That was closed with a reference to https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T191231 as the solution and that is still open :-(

Our new data centre which we're currently working on bringing up has deliberately used a different network provider and the intention is to migrate the Amsterdam data centre to a...

As I told you last time you asked, that is the first attempt, and https://github.com/openstreetmap/chef/pull/528 is the replacement.

As I said on the call a few weeks ago Prometheus itself is not really intended for storing long term data - aside from anything else the two weeks we...

The thing that I saw recently that drew my attention to this was https://blog.timescale.com/blog/promscale-analytical-platform-long-term-store-for-prometheus-combined-sql-promql-postgresql/ from the TimescaleDB people.

I'm going to investigate using Promscale...

Saying "apache" isn't very helpful - it's more useful to know what machine you're talking about than what service. Are you saying ironbelly is the source of the extra traffic?

Indeed but I don't understand why... It appears that grisu was carrying similar load when it was standing in during the move so the jump appears to have been in...

We (that is to say @Firefishy and I) have discussed this before - not for this page specifically, but for the static assets in general. I'm actually more interested in...