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Our next effort will be to open the Catalyst API for more general workloads include wikis which rely on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microservices" class="extiw" title="en:Microservices">(micro)services</a>. </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Update" data-mw-thread-id="h-Update"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Update"></span>Update<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Update"></span></h2></div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <ul><li>Status: On Track</li> <li>Progress update on the hypothesis for the week <ul><li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373620" class="extiw" title="phab:T373620">phab:T373620</a> added link to documentation about the Catalyst backend</li> <li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/367784" class="extiw" title="phab:367784">phab:367784</a> CI running BDD tests for Catalyst API</li> <li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373913" class="extiw" title="phab:T373913">phab:T373913</a> set up staging environment for Patchdemo and Catalyst API <ul><li>deploying to production is a manual step in Gitlab CI</li></ul></li> <li><a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T373605" class="extiw" title="phab:T373605">phab:T373605</a> prepared banner for Beta Launch</li></ul></li> <li>Any new metrics related to the hypothesis <ul><li>no</li></ul></li> <li>Any emerging blockers or risks</li> <li>Any unresolved dependencies - do you depend on another team that hasn’t already given you what you need? 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