Architecture Summit 2014/Service-oriented architecture

RFCs

• Services and narrow interfaces (talk)
• PHP Virtual REST Service (talk)
• API roadmap (talk) (moved to 1:30 slot)

Overview

The main focus of the RFCs in the session is:

• to see if mediawiki core can be visioned as a set of independent components / services each of which provide clean, well-defined, narrow APIs
• provide a higher-level unified API interface for PHP code that can be used to make parallel requests to components / services without having to manually deal with issues like authentication

Big Questions

• Besides what has already happened (Swift for media storage, Parsoid for bidirectional wikitext parsing), what specific functionality provided by mediawiki core can be isolated into independent components?
• How does this kind of decomposition interact with mediawiki packaging and work for non-wikipedia installations?
• ...

Agenda

Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/service_oriented_architecture, moved to Talk:Architecture Summit 2014/Service-oriented architecture.

• 5-20 minutes - various lightning talks about the different proposals on the table
• 40-60 minutes - discussion of big questions
• Slides