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The 8th DIRAC Annual User Workshop - My First Time

As part of the 2nd week, I was also involved in the DIRAC's annual workshop where I attended (virtually via Vidyo) some of the reports presented by fellow mentors between 22nd to 25th May 2018 (couldn't attend all due to time difference).

There was a discussion about the rise of ElasticSearch and its intended usage in the project (discusses my GSoC project as well). Presentation link here.

It was quite an engaging experience as it helped to understand what differences lie between the developers and users in terms of the usage of the tools and the importance of coming to a common page to ease both the parties.

More details about the workshop can be found here.

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