Software Engineering Blog

Agile in research - Another take on metrics and estimates

Can data help tell the story of a team? And how, by understanding its story, can a team become better at foreseeing its future?

Transitioning away from Jira ? Lessons learnt

Over the past year, we’ve been moving most of our projects away from Jira, in favor of GitHub issues. This blog post will go over the reasons why and lessons we learnt along the way.

Fizz buzz in Tensorflow?

I tried teaching a computer some math and learned a couple things along the way

Minh Ha
Jun. 22, 2018

Testcontainers FTW (a really big win)

Never configure another test database again, and no we're not talking about H2.

Alex Lepsa
Jun. 4, 2018

Jupyter in ICGC: A Data Science Sandbox for Genomics

The ICGC Data Portal gets a new analysis tool!

Dusan Andric
May. 25, 2018

Programmable Pipeline in Kids-First ETL

Refactored Kids-First ETL to make the Pipeline programmable

Grant Guo
May. 24, 2018

Let's Encrypt the Collaboratory

SSL all your sites with Let's Encrypt and Ansible

Jared Baker
Apr. 5, 2018

Drops of Jupyter...

or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Dockerized JupyterHub

Kevin Hartmann
Mar. 28, 2018

Using JWT's with Spring Security's @PreAuthorize annotation for method specific security

We explore how to implement a spring security strategy that statelessly authorizes a user using via JWT, allowing for method level permissions using the @PreAuthorize annotation.

Alex Lepsa
Mar. 22, 2018

Scripted Kubernetes installation with dashboard and monitoring.

A quick how-to on deploying Kubernetes on top of Collaboratory VMs with Kubernetes dashboard and Graphana monitoring enabled.

George Mihaiescu
Mar. 21, 2018

Introducing the Kids-First ETL

An introduction of how to apply Scala's functional programming features to the Kids-First ETL

Grant Guo
Mar. 19, 2018

Integrating Clinical Annotation Features into the ICGC Data Portal

In February 2018, we integrated new features focusing on clinical annotation of variants into the ICGC data portal. Here, we will explore some of those features and how they can be used by researchers!

Rosi Bajari
Feb. 7, 2018