Microservices above the Cloud—Designing the International Space Station for Reliability
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The International Space Station is built from ~50 modules added over decades, giving modular upgrades, redundant subsystems and surprising edge cases: three different oxygen systems (water electrolysis older Russian electron system, upgraded 2006 unit and a CO2-to-oxygen system (2018)) plus chemical candles and bottled reserves, a spacesuit parts shortage that delayed an EVA until a delivery produced the first paired women spacewalk, an autonomous assistant that offloads AI to IBM Watson, and even a Kubernetes-capable edge compute cluster in orbit.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:14Microservices above the Cloud - The International Space Station
- 0:58Space flight vs Space station
- 2:58Comparing Space Stations
- 4:31Skylab was gigantic
- 5:46ISS Construction 1998-2011
- 6:44ISS Current configuration (July 2021)
- 9:05Habitation is a common service
- 9:39Resiliency use cases
- 9:52Oxygen generation (easy path)
- 12:16Oxygen generation (problems)
- 13:56Spacesuits
- 16:52Space Station does and don't
- 17:03International Standard Payload Rack
- 18:10Common Berthing Mechanisms
- 20:29Tiny holes cause large headaches
- 22:24Lessons learned
- 26:38Further Reading
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