The year that just passed, with a visually appealing, even pattern of 2-0-2-0, can be summarized as tumultuous, weltschmerz, fatiguing, revealing, unprintable. That year—the very bad confluence of Covid-19 pandemic, national and global upheavals–challenged our understanding of our work, forced us to fortify our focus, pushed us to examine our processes, and corralled our support for each other—both professional and personal.
It was challenging, but we adapted to make progress in our work. As we leave that year behind, here is a summary of what we covered in CompilED for 2020. We shared some best practices in maintaining and monitoring our infrastructure. The components and logistics of our development and design process also got some revision, especially since our university transitioned to fully online learning, and working remotely.
Hindsight is 2020, and we take with us the insights we gained in that gobsmacking year into—what we dare hope will be—a twelvemonth of lesser bugs.
Closing Classroom Gaps with Customer Experience Principles
By Marc Raymond | Dec 22, 2020
Education technology designers might look to the strategies and tactics of the
customer experience design process for inspiration that could lead to more
empowering hyflex student experiences.
Securing Our AWS Infrastructure, Part 1: MFA and SSH
By Devon Anirudh | Oct 27, 2020
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.
Jira Web
By Natalia Dittren | Jul 19, 2020
My first dive into a robust project management tool.
Practicing Agility—Transitioning To Remote Work
By Susan Dreher | Jul 6, 2020
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.
The Narrative of User and Technical Stories
By Zarina Mustapha | Jun 9, 2020
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.
Setting up Django Integration Testing with Cypress
By Nick Buonincontri | Mar 30, 2020
Finding a solution to integration testing in Django.
FOSDEM 2020
By Nik Nyby | Feb 26, 2020
A summary of the Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting,
which was held in Brussels on February 1st and 2nd, 2020.
We’re All Project Managers
By Meesha Meksin | Feb 19, 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?
Tuning and Adjusting Our Agile Processes
By Susan Dreher | Jan 21, 2020
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.
Using SNMP to monitor a QNAP device
By Devon Anirudh | Jan 10, 2020
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.
Printed from: https://compiled.ctl.columbia.edu/articles/wrap-up-2020/