Friday, April 06, 2012

And you thought debugging your production environment was hard... Debugging code that's running 60 million miles away

The Endeavour - Writing software for space probes

"A few days ago I quoted Ron Garret on his experience debugging software running millions of miles away. Since then I discovered a video of a talk Garret gave at Google a few weeks ago. He talks about remote debugging toward the end of his presentation, but most of his talk is about how NASA developed software for space probes during his time there.

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This is a really interesting presentation and makes you appreciate having systems that are only a few feet/rooms/buildings/miles away...

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