Evolving Wikipedia: A Case Study in Applying DDD - Moriel Schottlender - DDD Europe 2024

Domain-Driven Design Europe 2024 - Organised by Aardling (https://aardling.eu/)

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This talk will present a case study of utilizing Domain-Driven Design (DDD) methodologies to address the challenges of evolving Wikipedia's underlying system architecture. Wikipedia is a 23-year-old open-source monolith that serves billions of reads and millions of simultaneous writes, with a unique combination of dynamic user-generated content and workflows. The scale, complexity, and socio-technical nature of Wikipedia make it a challenging environment for applying DDD. This talk will discuss the process of mapping the system to understand potential pitfalls, discover opportunities, and inform product strategy.

About Moriel Schottlender:
Moriel is a physicist turned software engineer turned systems architect, currently working on modernising Wikipedia’s systems. She’s an Open Source enthusiast, right-to-left language support and localisation evangelist, and a general domain hoarder.