Cloud-first: Serverless alerts for trending repositories
Latest version published on 11 July, 2018.
By Mark Woodbridge, Research Software Engineering Team Lead at Imperial College. In our previous two posts we described two ways of deploying web applications to Azure: firstly using a Virtual Machine in place of an on-premise server, and then using the App Service to run a Docker container. The former provides a means of provisioning an arbitrary machine much more rapidly that would traditionally be possible, and the latter gives us a seamless route from development to production – greatly reducing the burden of long-term maintenance and monitoring.Cloud-first: Rapid webapp deployment using containers
Latest version published on 28 June, 2018.
By Mark Woodbridge, Research Software Engineer group lead at Imperial College London.
This is the second in a series of posts describing activities funded by our RSE Cloud Computing Award. We are exploring the use of selected Microsoft Azure services to accelerate the delivery of RSE projects via a cloud-first approach.
CarpentryCon 2018
Latest version published on 11 July, 2018.
By Raniere Silva, Software Sustainability Institute, Aleksandra Nenadic, Software Sustainability Institute, Mario Antonioletti, Software Sustainability Institute. After six years of working and communicating with The Carpentries’ staff and community via email and various video conferencing tools at all sorts of early or late hours, we finally met them face-to-face for the very first time at CarpentryCon 2018. It was all very exciting!Measuring Behaviour 2018
Latest version published on 11 July, 2018.
By Raniere Silva, Software Sustainability Institute. We know that seven out of ten UK researchers reported that their work would be impossible without software, but, sometimes when attending domain specific conferences, we still get surprised at the importance of software in research. On June 2018, I attended Measuring Behavior 2018 by invitation of our fellow Robyn Grant.Brexit Data Challenge part 2: presentation at GISRUK
Latest version published on 11 July, 2018.
By Reka Solymosi, University of Manchester. After our Brexit Data Challenge Hackathon our paper got shortlisted to be presented at the 2018 GISRUK conference. While I was unable to attend, two members of the hackathon team, Heather Robinson and Sam Langton went to represent our group. This is a guest blog of sorts by them on their experience on presenting our paper and the event in general.Mozilla Global Sprint 2018
Latest version published on 26 June, 2018.
Photo by Benjamin KerensaBy Alexander Morley, DPhil in Neuroscience, University of Oxford, and Yo Yehudi,
Learning and Working Together: Research Software Organisations Around the World
Latest version published on 18 June, 2018.
By Scott Henwood, Director of Research Software at CANARIE.
Towards cultural change in data management - data stewardship in practice
Latest version published on 11 July, 2018.
By Martin Donnelly, University of Edinburgh. Late last month, I took a day trip to the Netherlands to attend an event at TU Delft entitled “Towards cultural change in data management – data stewardship in practice”. My Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship application “pitch” last year had been based around building bridges and sharing strategies and lessons between advocacy approaches for data and software management, and encouraging more holistic approaches to managing (and simply thinking about) research outputs in general. When I signed up for the event I expected it to focus…Report on CW18 mini-workshop: Building effective, sustainable, Research Software communities
Latest version published on 4 June, 2018.
By Jeremy Cohen, Imperial College London (editor). See Contributors section at the end of the report for full list of contributors
Research Software Engineers 2018 (RSE18) Conference: Call for volunteers
Latest version published on 11 July, 2018.
The RSE conference committee are looking for volunteers to help us run the RSE 18 Conference on the 3-4 September. You should be friendly and outgoing to help us with a variety of activities for our conference participants including: