December 2025—SciCatProject/frontend monthly summary: Delivered two high-impact features that improve cart usability and dataset handling, with refactoring aimed at maintainability and performance. No major bugs fixed this month. Overall impact includes a smoother cart workflow for dataset addition and more maintainable dataset batch processing, enabling faster future iterations. Technologies demonstrated include front-end UI development, state management, and code refactoring for performance and maintainability.

November 2025: Backend stability and data governance enhancements in SciCatProject/scicat-backend-next. Implemented optimistic concurrency control helper and integrated across controllers and tests with a rollback path to preserve stability. Strengthened instrument data governance with enforced required fields, refined datablock update logic, permission checks, and a migration to populate updatedBy for Instruments. Refined datablock update paths to avoid unnecessary writes and handle not-found cases gracefully. Added a data migration to populate updatedBy for Instrument updates, improving auditability. Overall, these changes improve data integrity, concurrency safety, and system resilience with no production incidents reported.