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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by rich_sasha on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:53AM (#37995955)
They are doing it all wrong. Who runs on-prem hardware these days??? They should put it all in the cloud, they can replicate and have many instances of virtual Voyagers, not the measly 2. CDN should help with latency too, I hear their latency is measured in many hours, and is getting worse every day! Also, software update, big deal - use CI/CD!

They probably don't have a Kanban board either... Dinosaurs!

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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by kzrdude on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:11AM (#37996102)
They are hard at work putting it in the Oort cloud.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by datameta on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @10:44AM (#37999855)
Super low throughput and shard size, but robust vacuum gap security to defend against physical attacks.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by sgt on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:11AM (#37996098)
Their latest patch was actually converting the entire app to use npm. Let's hope the poor probe has enough memory.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by rahen on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:19AM (#37996159)
With npm, 64GB ought to be enough for everyone.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by kosolam on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:24AM (#37996202)
A rust rewrite from scratch is already in process
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by girafffe_i on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:36AM (#37996305)
Lol
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by gorbachev on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:24AM (#37996631)
A Go rewrite from scratch soon to follow.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by jtvjan on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:10AM (#37996901)
A rewrite in Scratch is in the early planning stages.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by doubloon on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @06:42AM (#37997122)
then Microsoft Power Automate, basically the same thing as Scratch but we can get a support contract.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by ngcc_hk on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:52AM (#37999194)
Actually a linux is in the pipeline. Everything has to run linux for once. Even in o… cloud.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by rahen on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:54AM (#37996814)
Great, I'll take the Web Assembly version.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by imdsm on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:31AM (#37996253)
Run it in the nebula!
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by tjrgergw on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:12AM (#37996542)
I was gonna say "run it in the stars", but yours is funnier for some reason :-)
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by worthless-trash on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:11AM (#37996097)
I both love and hate it at the same time, well done.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by fredsted on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @04:45AM (#37996372)
I bet it doesn't even run Kubernetes.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by icepat on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:59AM (#37997862)
I think whatever they're running is being run far beyond our cloud infrastructure at this point. That's rather high level stuff, but this is billions of miles higher level than that.
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by ilyt on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @08:45AM (#37998383)
Actually no, they were first to have code successfully run in (space dust) cloud for so long
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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by nucleardog on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @09:15AM (#37998758)
I’m sure the AWS Ground Station[0] team is already on it. Soon you’ll be able to provision deep space probes via API and deploy your workloads in containers. (I hear the latency for bringing one up makes S3 Glacier look like a rocket sled though.)

https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station/

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Re:NASA just sent a software update to a spacecraft 12B mile... by mouzogu on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:57PM (#38001927)
if they had built it with a modern stack it would have done well to last 43 days, let alone 43 years.
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