TEAMMATES Maintenance and Operations Guide

This is the maintenance web site for TEAMMATES. It consists of documentations and several sub-projects necessary for keeping TEAMMATES running.

Documentations

• The developer community structure.
• Maintainer Guide: regular tasks for core team members to keep the project moving.
• Platform Guide: Google Cloud Platform-specific instructions, e.g. deployment.

Tool Stack

Here are the tools used for TEAMMATES development/operations:

• Google App Engine Java, Standard Environment or Google App Engine, Flexible Environment as the underlying platform. Additionally, we use the following GCP services:
  • Google Cloud Datastore as the database
  • Google Cloud Storage as the binary file storage
  • Google Cloud Tasks as the background task scheduler
  • Google Cloud Scheduler as the cron job scheduler
  • Google Cloud Logging for application logs
  • Google Cloud Trace for performance and latency monitoring
• Google OAuth 2.0 for user authentication
• SendGrid as the primary email sending service.
• Apache Solr running in Google Compute Engine as the full-text search service
• GitHub for hosting code, issue tracker, code patches, as well as project management
• GitHub Actions for building/testing
• Codecov for hosting code coverage reports

Sub-projects

• Release script: automates many tasks related to releasing a new version