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Pawing around with PAWS: recent updates to Wikimedia Cloud Services’ Jupyter notebooks instance

Learn more about recent updates to PAWS: A Web Service, Wikimedia Cloud Services’ Jupyter notebooks instance.
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How we learned to stop worrying and loved the (event) flow

This is part one of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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The trouble with triples

This is part two of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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Getting the WDQS Updater to production: a tale of production readiness for Flink on Kubernetes at WMF

This is part three of a three part series on the Wikidata Query Service.
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How we improved performance of a batch process from two days to five minutes

The Growth team recently improved the performance of a script that prepares data for usage in the mentor dashboard. Learn about how they decreased the average runtime of the script from more than 48 hours to less than five minutes.
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