As part of the modernization of the Weblecture service, a new Transcoding infrastructure has been put in place, based on the FOSS product Opencast [1], to cover the needs of the Weblecture and CDS services.
In this talk we will explain the work done in order to adapt Opencast to CERN workloads, extension of the metadata to operate with Indico, encoding profiles, visualization using the...
DESY has relied on a central database service based on Oracle for decades.
With APEX, this service has received an additional impetus in application development. An unlimited license agreement followed.
However, Oracle is not supported by all applications and the users are looking for alternatives. The pressure from the users is great.
In order to confirm the great meaning and importance...
The centralised Elasticsearch service has already been running at CERN for over 6 years, providing the search and analytics engine for numerous CERN users, supporting various aspects of the High Energy Physics community. The service has been based on the open-source version of Elasticsearch, surrounded by a set of external open-source plugins offering security, multi-tenancy, extra...
