Published on 2026-04-29
As Lehigh University Libraries' digital repository, The Lehigh Preserve, continues to expand - especially with image-intensive collections that rely on IIIF for web display - the performance of our IIIF server has become critical to our daily operations. We frequently encounter server load spikes driven by a combination of aggressive bot traffic and standard site visitor interactions with large TIFF files....
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Published on 2025-01-06
We recently collaborated with the Islandora Community to enhance the security posture of the Docker images provided by the Islandora Open Source project Islandora-Devops/isle-buildkit utilizing Mend's Renovate CLI to keep dependencies up to date. Here at Lehigh we run the community-supported Docker images in our own digital repository The Lehigh Preserve. Adding this integration has been a win-win: the community repository benefits from automated updates, ensuring all institutions using these images stay up-to-date, and, in turn, our instance remains up-to-date as well....
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Published on 2024-11-21
Our Islandora repository, The Lehigh Preserve, utilizes GitLab CI/CD to automate the testing and deployment of code changes to our repository. Some reasons why we did this:...
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Published on 2024-10-23
Our Islandora repository, The Lehigh Preserve, was being aggressively crawled by distributed bots on a fairly regular basis. To prevent these bots from increasing the load on our server we implemented a Drupal module drupal/turnstile_protect....
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Published on 2024-10-23
Welcome to the Lehigh University Libraries Technology Team blog!...
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