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Ship It! SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps

What do you do when your infrastructure runs 1000 miles away and you only have access every 90 minutes? Find out from Andrew Guenther from Orbital Sidekick.

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Featuring:

• Andrew Guenther – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Justin Garrison – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Autumn Nash – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Moving away from AWS CDK
• $25 million deep fake heist
• Orbital Side Kick (OSK)
• Dog
• Doggo
• NASA open source library

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapters

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. The opener (00:00:50)

3. Sponsor: Synadia (00:10:34)

https://www.synadia.com/blog/rethinkconn-2024?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=changelog-news

4. Andrew Guenther (00:15:46)

5. Software & design in-house (00:18:44)

6. Lots of redundancy (00:20:27)

7. Preparing for a new launch (00:23:16)

8. How do you patch in space? (00:26:17)

9. Speed vs durability (00:28:02)

10. Going the hard way (00:29:23)

11. How to debug in space (00:31:39)

12. Unexpected challenges (00:32:58)

13. Modern space culture vs 60's (00:34:58)

14. Space license (00:37:14)

15. Lifespan of satellites (00:40:00)

16. Pets vs cattle (00:42:25)

17. Satellite to satellite comms (00:43:09)

18. The jerks of space (00:44:13)

19. Near misses (00:45:38)

20. Beefing with the Vatican (00:47:18)

21. Coolest career day dad (00:49:39)

22. Craziest fix in space (00:50:55)

23. Where to reach out (00:55:17)

24. Sponsor: Sentry (00:56:21)

http://sentry.io/events/launch-week/

25. The closer (00:59:56)

26. On the next episode (01:07:38)