Gabriel Tocci

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Sky High Success: Elevating Your ERP Cloud Strategy to a Higher Level

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This talk covered the strategies that make an ERP cloud migration go smooth, as well as common day-two / post-migration tasks. This talk presents methods and tools for leveraging your cloud investment and maximizing cloud computing capabilities to create highly available, cost-efficient, serverless, self-healing cloud architectures wherever possible.

Contain Your ERP: Leveraging Container Technologies to Optimize IT Operations

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This talk covered the benefits, strategies, and implementation details in utilizing container technologies in an ERP environment. This talk presents ways to maximize your return on engineering effort through High Availability, Horizontal Scaling, Zero Downtime Continuous Deployment and Delivery, and End to End Observability.

End to End Monitoring via Prometheus

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Prometheus is the leading open-source monitoring platform, and it is used to provide vital data on the health and state of IT systems. Prometheus is an extendible platform with customizable components that can be used to fit a seemingly unlimited number of use cases. The original author of this deck is Albert Holtsclaw. I changed up a few slides and presented it at CoHEsion 2022.

Running Banner ERP on Kubernetes

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Kubernetes is the industry leading container orchestration system. It is a platform with broad range of tools and technologies for automating deployment, scaling, and management of container based workloads in the cloud, on premises, or both. This is a technical talk that will dive into several Kubernetes technologies and outline best practices for managing Banner ERP applications using Kubernetes.

Managing Banner Infrastructure as Code

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Administering Banner Applications in Docker Containers

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Architecting Banner Infrastructure in AWS

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Running Banner on AWS: Technical Details

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Technical details on moving an entire enterprise information system to the cloud. Our team has reverse engineered systems and migrating them to serverless and container based systems whereever possible. Infrastructure is managed in a declarative manner, via docker, puppet, and terraform. Infrastructure declarations are deployed via gitlab continuous integration.

Git Together: Collaborative Coding and Source Code Management via Git and Gitlab

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Gitlab is a tool we use at ETSU to increase our collaboration and integrate our development workflows. This talk briefly covered the fundamentals of using Git to perform version control, followed by an in depth review of our programming workflows in Gitlab.

Avoiding DegreeWorks Localization Pitfalls: Programming Practices

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Ellucian Degreeworks degree audit software is a notoriously difficult product to learn and configure. This talk presented programming practices to efficiently and effectively manage changes to this system.