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1. Unconference Session at Samvera Connect 2019

Scope & Objectives

As the Samvera community has matured with a growing number of implementors, the need for a repository of infrastructure best practices is becoming more necessary. The focus of this group will be to provide the resources necessary to understand the underlying system technology implementation best practices in order to successfully support a highly available Samvera implementation in production.

We will focus on capturing the following topics:

1. There is much duplication when it comes to Docker containers for certain infrastructure/services
2. Primary Elements
   1. Deployment
   2. Runtime
   3. Dev. Practices
   4. Monitoring
   5. Observability
   6. Metrics
3. Topics for Inclusion
   1. Anything that is required for the application to run in a particular environment
   2. Everything from environment variables, documentation, containers, CI scriptscontinuous integration and deployment...
   3. Anything in the deployment and runtime environment
   4. Much larger in scope than application
4. Gentle recommendations regarding software development best practices?
   1. A series of guardrails and referencing what those might be

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• Michael B. Klein (facilitator) – Northwestern University Libraries / Michael Klein / michael dot klein at northwestern.edu
• Aaron Collier (co-facilitator) - Stanford Libraries / Aaron Collier / aaron dot collier at stanford dot edu
• Ryan Ordway – Oregon State University Libraries / Ryan Ordway/ rordway at oregonstate dot eduJames Griffin – Princeton University Library / James Griffin / jrg5 at princeton dot edu
• Brian McBride - University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library / Brian McBride / brian dot mcbride at utah dot edu
  
• Phuong Dinh - Indiana University Libraries / phuongdh / pdinh at iu dot edu

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