CompilED Articles

These are all of the articles written by our authors and contributors.

Total: 93 articles

A hallmark of DevOps is the constant search for more secure methods to protect infrastructure, a process known as hardening. One change we recently implemented was to move away from managing SSH keys and whitelisting IP’s to leveraging AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to securely connect to our EC2 instances.

My first dive into a robust project management tool.

On March 13, the Center for Teaching and Learning staff began working from home due to the COVID-19 crisis. Our design and development team leveraged its Agile process methodology to ease the transition.

Technical stories connect the intention of use of what we’re imagining, and the reality as well as possibilities of the technology that we can build.

Finding a solution to integration testing in Django.

A summary of the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting, which was held in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd, 2020.

How do we hold each other accountable to the standards of quality we all expect and contribute to the ethos of project management at the CTL as a whole?

What to do when the one-size-fits-all agile methodology doesn’t feel quite right? At the CTL, we’re experimenting with our planning and task creation to find a just-right development process.

It’s very useful to have all our monitoring in a central environment. We use Graphite and Grafana to collect metrics from our linux servers, and here’s how we added our QNAP file server using SNMP and collectd.

As we enter the new year, we look back at what we covered in CompilED for 2019, from coding tips, to project process, and accessibility.