Dealing with Rancher Snapshots A bare kubernetes cluster managed with rancher is hosted and provided by our computing center (GWDG). They offer great support when we have to scale the nodes, but after all some parts of the maintenance is our business. Setting the kubernetes version from a provided list or managing ingress controller or certbot are those tasks.
A few years ago an internal initiative on software quality launched at the Research and Development Department. There is always room for improvements and some guidance can help implement best practices for better workflows and for better code. The very first stop on our ride was at Joel`s Test for better code, published 24 years ago. It is time for a review — again. Do you use source control? Who doesn’t? Can you make a build in one step?
Heute soll es um die Werte in Scrum gehen. Ich glaube, dass gelebte Werte in der Teamarbeit eine absolute Grundvoraussetzung für ein High Performing Team sind. Zum Einstieg möchte ich mit ein paar kurzen einleitenden Worten zu den Scrum Werten beginnen. Wenn euch das neugierig macht, solltet ihr unbedingt den kurzen Methoden-Montag Podcast dazu anhören!
In dem Podcast „Code for thought“ erzählen Kristine Schima-Voigt und Kay Liewald über unsere Erfahrungen mit agilen Methoden in der Gruppe Software- und Serviceentwicklung an der SUB Göttingen. Peter von „Code for thought“ wurde auf der „Conference for Research Software Engineering in Germany“, kurz deRSE, auf uns aufmerksam.
Conducting debug sessions In our teams, we have repeatedly conducted debug sessions to help team members get started with the development. An entry point is pointed out and the control and data flow is followed together. At important code points breakpoints are set and the state (variable values) is inspected. The whole thing can be recorded as a video cast, e.g. with BBB and is available for recapitulation or for others.
Using a dependency proxy with npm, yarn or pnpm in CI or local development can greatly reduce outgoing traffic. Fortunately, FE now maintains an instance of such service. Verdaccio – not only a classical underpainting technique The project maintains a current Helm chart that made its deployment into a Kubernetes cluster work like a charm.
We are looking for developers who fit into our team - so if you want to work in a great work environment in a beautiful city (Göttingen) and are an experienced software developer, please apply. We are working with a wide range of technologies, so we hope, there’s something for you.
On the 14th of october a ‘IIIF-Friday’ will be held at Ghent University. Most importantly, the major IIIF-Viewers are being presented, followed by a Q&A session. Feel free to register for the online event at meemoo.
The colleagues from the other side of the library also started blogging, but more of the book- and collection related library topics. For hosting the blog, the platform hypotheses.org was chosen. Hypotheses.org mainly focuses on academic content. Check it out at https://sub.hypotheses.org/ or subscribe to the RSS Feed.
I tried to improve the downlad-time and size of the assets used in this blog. This is mainly about optimizing the images for web. Not only that all JavaScript from this site has been removed previously, the images were a huge factor in the traffic of this page.. The images used in this blog are of different types. We use PNG, JPEG and SVG. Some of these files are huge and not optimized for web use.