The 35th annual conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems 2025 in Görlitz, Germany

Alongside groundbreaking new hardware capabilities for existing and future facilities, we are entering a new era of optimisation and efficiency that will be driven by software innovation. The dramatic rise of practical artificial intelligence in recent years carries significant implications for how we effectively operate our future facilities, a trend that has already been in place for years...

Advanced science platforms must handle large data volumes, complex workflows, and collaborations that span multiple disciplines and partners. While scientific questions may differ between fields, the challenges of building reliable and reproducible data-driven research infrastructures are very similar.

This talk demonstrates how a geophysics-oriented science platform integrates well known...

Whilst the Research Data and Software (RDS) team at the AAO has more than doubled in size, the nature of our funding is such that there is very limited scope to hire additional infrastructure support personnel. Taking inspiration from the Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) Astronomy Operations user support model, we have introduced the concept of a "DevOps Roster" to ameliorate the load...