Author: Yilmaz, U.Y.
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MO2BCO01 Driving Behavioural Change of Software Developers in a Global Organisation Assisted by a Paranoid Android 25
 
  • U.Y. Yilmaz, M.G.P.T. Android
    SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
  • M.J.A. de Beer
    SARAO, Cape Town, South Africa
  
  Ensuring code quality standards at the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is of utmost importance, as the project spans multiple nations and encompasses a wide range of software products delivered by developers from around the world. To improve code quality and meet certain open-source software prerequisites for a wider collaboration, the SKAO employs the use of a chatbot that provides witty, direct and qualified comments with detailed documentation that guide developers in improving their coding practices. The bot is modelled after a famous character albeit a depressed one, creating a relatable personality for developers. This has resulted in an increase in code quality and faster turnaround times. The bot has not only helped developers adhere to code standards but also fostered a culture of continuous improvement with an engaging and enjoyable process. Here we present the success story of the bot and how a chatbot can drive behavioural change within a global organisation and help DevOps teams to improve developer performance and agility through an innovative and engaging approach to code reviews.  
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO2BCO01  
About • Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Revised ※ 07 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 November 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023
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TUPDP045 Monitoring the SKA Infrastructure for CICD 622
 
  • M. Di Carlo, M. Dolci
    INAF - OAAB, Teramo, Italy
  • P. Harding, U.Y. Yilmaz
    SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
  • J.B. Morgado
    Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Porto, Portugal
  • P. Osorio
    Atlar Innovation, Pampilhosa da Serra, Portugal
  
  Funding: INAF
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international effort to build two radio interferometers in South Africa and Australia, forming one Observatory monitored and controlled from global headquarters (GHQ) based in the United Kingdom at Jodrell Bank. The selected solution for monitoring the SKA CICD (continuous integration and continuous deployment) Infrastructure is Prometheus with the help of Thanos. Thanos is used for high availability, resilience, and long term storage retention for monitoring data. For data visualisation, the Grafana project emerged as an important tool for displaying data in order to make specific reasoning and debugging of particular aspect of the infrastructure in place. In this paper, the monitoring platform is presented while considering quality aspect such as performance, scalability, and data preservation. 		 
DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP045  
About • Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 18 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 December 2023 — Issued ※ 19 December 2023
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TH2AO06 SKA Tango Operator 1155
 
  • M. Di Carlo, M. Dolci
    INAF - OAAB, Teramo, Italy
  • P. Harding, U.Y. Yilmaz
    SKAO, Macclesfield, United Kingdom
  • J.B. Morgado
    Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências, Porto, Portugal
  • P. Osorio
    Atlar Innovation, Pampilhosa da Serra, Portugal
  
  Funding: INAF
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an international effort to build two radio interferometers in South Africa and Australia, forming one Observatory monitored and controlled from global headquarters (GHQ) based in the United Kingdom at Jodrell Bank. The software for the monitoring and control system is developed based on the TANGO-controls framework, which provide a distributed architecture for driving software and hardware using CORBA distributed objects that represent devices that communicate with ZeroMQ events internally. This system runs in a containerised environment managed by Kubernetes (k8s). k8s provides primitive resource types for the abstract management of compute, network and storage, as well as a comprehensive set of APIs for customising all aspects of cluster behaviour. These capabilities are encapsulated in a framework (Operator SDK) which enables the creation of higher order resources types assembled out of the k8s primitives (\verb|Pods|, \verb|Services|, \verb|PersistentVolumes|), so that abstract resources can be managed as first class citizens within k8s. These methods of resource assembly and management have proven useful for reconciling some of the differences between the TANGO world and that of Cloud Native computing, where the use of Custom Resource Definitions (CRD) (i.e., Device Server and DatabaseDS) and a supporting Operator developed in the k8s framework has given rise to better usage of TANGO-controls in k8s. 		 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TH2AO06  
About • Received ※ 27 September 2023 — Revised ※ 24 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 14 December 2023 — Issued ※ 21 December 2023
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