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| Paper: |
To Monorepo or Not to Monorepo: A Multi-Lingual, Telescope-Agnostic Steering Control System |
| Volume: |
541, ADASS XXXIII |
| Page: |
473 |
| Authors: |
Nicholas Bruce; Dustin Lagoy; David A. Del Rizzo |
| DOI: |
10.26624/SDFC6496 |
| Abstract: |
At the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory (DRAO), we support
5 single-dish radio telescopes and one 7-dish radio interferometer. Each has it’s own
hardware interface for low-level motor control and previously depended on a series
of network calls to communicate monitor and control tasks to progressively higher-level software layers such as pointing corrections, coordinate transforms, and complex
steering paths. This functionality was split across multiple repositories organized by
telescope.
In this paper we discuss the unification of these repositories into a single strictly-typed monorepo which supports multiple programming languages (Python/C/C++),
multiple hardware interfaces, unified interfaces for all layers above the hardware interfaces. We also discuss how this improved the developer experience and simplified
the testing and deployment of a telescope control system. |
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