Jack Lagare, EBS IS Lead, opened the two-week event with a presentation on the team’s 2024 resolution. The team aims to improve services to existing and prospective customers by lowering costs, enabling easier adoption and migration, increasing flexibility, and future-proofing EBS. “We want the best custom solution but with low cost and low effort necessary.” Lagare summarizes.
The rest of the sessions provided insight on best practices and standardization on the following: verification testing and processes, commit messages, data testing and validation, story point estimation, hotfix process, sprint retrospective, code to deployment process, event-driven architecture with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Lambda, Application Programming Interface (API) security and inventory, Hybrid Testing Automation Framework (HTAF), and the EBS DO ECS Deployer.
Lois Go, Software Quality Assurance Specialist, explains the importance of automation.
Software Platform Engineering Junior Specialist Sol Marfil introduces AWS PyScripts.
Aside from the technical subjects, discussions on collaboration and time management were also covered in the sessions. These were presented in a mix of open talks, collaborative workshops, and closed sessions by the following speakers from the EBS team: Jack Lagare, Philip Sinohin, Renee Lat, Arrianne Pandaraoan, Eugenia Tenorio, Jesa Lacambra, Eugene Sumague, Sol Marfil, Lois Go, Marinell Ramirez-Quintana, Neo Lapitan, Jiyo Pagtananan, Dinia Gepte, Erica Banasihan, and Jared Muñoz.
The Research Gateway workshop facilitated by Robert Bata from AWS was also opened to other interested IRRI HQ staff.
All in all, the sessions provided an avenue for EBS staff to share, collaborate, and try new ways of working with a unified goal of delivering quality service for EBS clients. This event is part of the efforts to continuously upskill staff as EBS becomes the sole breeding data management system across CGIAR Research Centers.
