WMF Projects/Upgrade Payments Infrastructure
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Upgrade our payments server
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Feature justification edit
Current payment server is not scaling
User requirements edit
Be able to serve 100% of our banners with 1click donations at a 3% (best banner) + 2% (variance window)
Specification edit
Upgrade payments server with the following
Software design document edit
Our goal is to allow for Squid caching of the credit card gateway form and its variants to reduce server load. In order to support this, the software that supports the forms (DonationInterface/payflowpro_gateway extension) will require some rearchitecting.
Test plan edit
Use Apache Bench (ab) to determine page load times for the various forms under different load scenarios, with different scaling configurations, compare results to baseline (no LVS/squid/APC) results to determine efficacy.
Documentation plan edit
User interface design docs edit
None needed yet
Schedule edit
Test APC edit
- 10/8 - Test APC
APC was not enough to take on the full load of the Jimmy Appeal @ 30% or 60%. Details to follow.
Squid edit
- 10/5
LVS + Memcache edit
- 10/22 (or 10/29) - Test LVS+Memcache
Task management edit
Hardware Orders edit
- Upgrade main payments box to 6core version RT #274
Release management plan edit
Community management plan edit
Document lessons learned and coordinate with chapters.