Data Platform Engineering/Learning Materials

Talks and Presentations

Data Practices and Privacy Engineering

• Wikipedia and the Lean Data Diet, Nuria Ruiz

General Overview: What is analytics doing back there?

Our most recent talk that gives you an overview of the stack:

• What is Analytics Doing Back There?, Dan Andreescu

Talks recommended by other members of the Data Engineering team:

• Wikipedia’s Event Data Platform, Or: JSON Is Okay Too, Andrew Otto, Confluent Current 2022 (slides)

• Modern Event platform, Andrew Otto
• The Paramecium Talk, Aaron Halfaker
• Kafka @ Wikimedia foundation, Andrew Otto
• Hadoop and Beyond. An overview of Analytics infrastructure
• What happens when you type el.wikipedia.org (overview of the setup of wikipedia by our SRE team)