Technologies

Most important Technologies

At MARS we use a wide range of technologies. This gives a broad overview.

Programming languages

• .NET Core (multi platform C# by Microsoft)
• Java
• Python
• JavaScript
• Go

Databases & Storage Solutions

• ArangoDB
• Cassandra
• GeoServer
• MariaDB
• MongoDB
• PostgreSQL
• RabbitMQ

Workflow Tools

• GitLab (Git & CI / CD Pipeline)
• Sonatype Nexus (packet cache)
• ownCloud (File sharing)
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Communication

• Slack (Chat)
• Confluence (documentation)
• GitLab (Issues)

 

Infrastructure

We used to have our own hardware, but since fall 2017 our hardware is part of the ICC cloud. It is a Kubernetes cluster maintained by members of our working group for the department. It is evolving, but currently (January 2018) it has the following hardware specs: