Search Platform/Weekly Updates/2026-01-16
Highlights
OKR work on WE3.1.17 (semantic/vector search) is currently our main focus. Shoutout to DPE SRE for taking on setting up a proper OpenSearch 3.x cluster on k8s. We continue connecting OpenSearch to the LiftWin-hosted inference service and also making semantic search available through MW Action API. Also WIP: load tests for hardware estimations.
Shipped: did we release anything this week?
- T406205 Investigate and cleanup broken weighted_tags in cirrus indices
- T409070 Latest CirrusSearch is incompatible with ES7.10 and the corresponding WMF extra plugin
Blockers: does this essential workstream have any unresolved blockers or dependencies? is anything preventing us from doing our work?
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Lessons learned: Did we learn anything in the course of doing this work that can be applied to other work?
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Community collab: Did we do anything in this essential workstream this week in collaboration with the community or because the community asked us to?
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