Wikimedia Services/2016-17 Q1 Goals

Objective	Key result	Dependency	ETA	Status
Protect sensitive user information	Minimize code with direct access to sensitive user information by creating an authentication service prototype, to be used as an AuthManager backend in Q2.	Security, Operations	EOQ	Partly successful. Prototyped, full implementation pending storage backend discussion & security hiring.
EventBus & change propagation	Finish RESTBase update job migration. Support use cases for Discovery, Reading & Wikidata, replacing custom jobs where it makes sense. Refine our CDN purging infrastructure to reduce purge request volumes & improve reliability (with operations).	Operations	EOQ	Driver / Kafka upgrade took longer than anticipated. Finished RESTBase update migration & enabled other use cases like ORES. Work with collaboration & reading teams on new use cases is ongoing & will continue in Q2. Discussed CDN purge options & contributed patches, but do not yet have comprehensive scaling strategy in place.

Other progress:

• Productize PDF render service
  • On track for deployment towards early Q2.
• Content composition: Create a Demo frontend running on client & server; initiate a working group to chart the way forward.
  • In progress: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T106099