**Please provide the following information.**
> * Provide a short summary of your proposed post for the Wikimedia Technical Blog. Blog readers will see this as the preview to your post:
The Wikimedia Foundation provides web content to users around the globe. When you visit a page on Wikipedia, your web browser does the work of sending web requests to our servers and parsing the responses. Our servers are grouped into several geographically separate data centers. This gives us the ability to quickly serve content to all of our users, regardless of location.
> * Which topic type does your blog post fall under? See: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines#Outlines_for_topics:
Explainer for complicated tech concept or process
> * Which audience or audiences do you think your post is appropriate for?:
Semi-technical and up (people who casually program, people who listen to tech talks, tech writers, engineers, CTOs). Audience should learn the high-level paradigm changes needed to migrate an existing single DC-app to multi-DC. The paradigm could also be an inspiration for new applications at scale.These concepts are broadly applicable to web applications.
* Will you need assistance with writing your blog post, or do you already have a draft? If you have a draft, please provide a link here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IZKkeFN3YBzuZOryhjmfB3e2uAkl85f1vt2eqkuYu0Y/edit?pli=1#
* Does your post need to be published by a certain date?
No
* Do you have an image in mind for the featured image? You can learn more here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_technical_blog_editorial_guidelines#Images_used_in_your_post
No; maybe something from https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=wikimedia+servers&title=Special:MediaSearch&go=Go&type=image
* Do you have any other questions or comments?
No
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