EURISE Network: Online expert meeting series 2020

The EURISE Network organises a series of online expert meetings on Wednesdays at 14 WET / 15 CET / 16 EET.

The meetings take place on the EURISE Discord – no registration required.

The one-hour meeting will be kicked-off by short lightning talks from infrastructure members. This is followed by a chance to discuss the points brought up in the introductions and to possibly go beyond.

October 28: Testing and automation, CI workflows

Possible topics for discussion:

• Code Quality practices

  • Linting, style guides, languages/libraries

• Automation methods and purposes

  • Code workflows vs deployment workflows

• Test methods and coverage

  • How to do Integration/End-to-End tests against real systems?

November 11: Technical documentation

Possible topics for discussion:

• Documentation as code

  • Plain texts, markdown etc.

  • Generating and deploying static sites

  • Generating PDF versions

• Reusing/converting existing content

  • Conversion from common formats (Word, HTML, PDF etc)

  • Auto-embedding markup (for ToC/other navigation)

• Versioning documentation

  • Matching product release version

  • Supporting multiple concurrent versions (e.g. APIs)

November 25: Observability

Possible topics for discussion:

• Metrics gathering

• Logs collecting

• Tracing problems with them

  • Statistics on metrics?

  • Correlation IDs

• Alerting based on these sources

December 9: Infrastructure provisioning

Possible topics for discussion:

• Servers vs Containers

• Serverless

• Infrastructure as code / GitOps

• On-demand provision

  • Terraform environment to match feature-branches