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Design Tracker: an easy to use and flexible hypothesis tracking system to aid project team working

Craig Bruce and Martin Harrison

Abstract:

Design Tracker is a hypothesis tracking system used across all sites and research areas in AstraZeneca by the global chemistry community. It is built on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python) software stack, which started as a single server and has now progressed to a six-server cluster running cutting-edge high availability software and hardware. This chapter describes how a local tool was developed into a global production system.

Key words

MediaWiki

Python

Django

MySQL

Apache

Nginx

high availability

failover

12.1 Overview

Process management systems and software are now used across many ...

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