Development Tracks

IPS develops systems along three core tracks that overlap.

	Application-Service Administration	Application-Server Infrastructure	Developer Tools
Responsibilities	Admin of NIST-managed applications OpenFire, Request Tracker, Touchstone wikis.mit.edu jira.mit.edu Operations R&D For rollout to OIS System monitoring tools and strategy Server OS Virtualizaiton (VMware)	Administration of managed application servers (Server Op liaison) ISDA application-administration for MAP standard components Configuration management/automation Design of standard application-server components AlFresco, Apache, SASHServer, PHP/Perl runtime, MySQL SOA: Web services development and support SOA: Service bus and messaging Enterprise ECM cluster Enterprise MySQL cluster	Athena OS MyEclipse support Project Jumpstart Maven, Bamboo, OpenGrok, SVN Code-quality tools JMeter, Stresstester MAP Working Group facilitation Continuous improvement of developer-support program Support plan for assisting other teams in MAP implementation Includes using standard components and services developed by the other two "tracks."
Team	Brian Knoll: Application Administrator	Hunter Heinlen: Application Administrator Dave Tanner: SOA Developer	Andrew Boardman: System Programmer Greg Hudson: System Programmer

Staff Roles

Installation and configuration of web-application server platforms and database platforms for custom IS&T systems.
Installation and configuration of web-application products.
Server and network topology planning in conjunction with Server Operations or NIST.
Software development tasks focused on repeatable build and installation processes.
Service-level maintenance and liaison to Operations and Infrastructure Services (OIS)
Responsible to take developed systems out to a service-ready state.
Develop standard installation procedures for server applications that are part of the MIT Application Platform (MAP) and assist other MIT admins in their use.

Software development focused on web services and ISDA's system to deliver a services-oriented architecture.
Abstraction of disparate back-end systems behind web-enabled connectors based on industry standards.
Development of instrumentation tools for the administration of ISDA's web-services environment.
Java for web services and other kinds of data connectors
C, C++ specifically to interface Java services with custom native libraries (JNI), where those libraries are specific to the web services environment
SOAP, REST, JMX, Axis, Acegi, Hibernate, Spring, other connector architectures

Research and development for new systems and services.
Design operational processes and test operational tools with Application Administrators.
System level programming for core operating systems and low-level applications.
Develop complex systems based on MAP standards to roll out to ISDA development and operational teams.
Develop and support off-standard application in C, C++, shell scripts (various), Perl
Integrate MAP software development tools into standard MIT environments.
Managers of build and deploy processes.