Now, everybody's ambition is to work at NASA and explore the universe. But, NASA doesn't have a job to engage everyone. So, how about working on the same technologies that NASA does , albeit , more down to earth and contribute to the society we live in. Well , that takes some understanding of what NASA actually does.
Lets explore that...
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The big picture is that NASA fires rockets and launches satellites and probes all over the solar system. But actually, all these satellites and probes carry imaging devices , sensors , transponders , spectrometers etc ., which collect data as part of various scientific experiments and transmit the collected data down to earth. And the data is analyzed and visualized and decisions made at the NASA facilities by various super computers.That makes the NASA platform. And similar is the approach taken by other space organizations viz. ROSCosmos , ESA , JAXA , ISRO , CNSA etc., And they all have been collaborating in many ways since many years with data sharing and analytical methodologies.
Us Earthlings ...
Well , its year 2001 , there is ISS hovering around and NASA sends its first orbiter and rover to Mars and we see the first pictures of Mars after a 4 months wait.
Meanwhile , on earth the software industry is crashed amid the DotCom doom and 9/11 happens and people have lost their jobs and livelihoods. Awww ... awkward .
Stratagem Software Services is born.
The Strategy.
With a mission to build sustainable technologies that can engage the masses.
To transform existing J2EE architecture into a realtime platform for data collection and analysis. Made for building websites and banking transactions J2EE is severely incapable for any scientific application development. By following a NASA model the new architecture for Data and Algorithms was thought upon. A detailed explanation can be found in another blog .
Explaining in a simple example
A mini version of Satellites and Probes - newly developed Pedometers, Thermometers , BP Monitors etc,. were displaying the activity as standalone digital instruments. If their data was captured for analysis wonderful insights could be drawn. By statistical analysis of individual and population data new insights could be drawn. And to analyse and make decisions out of such data Supercomputers were needed and various reusable algorithms could be developed called Services.
Thus were born IoT devices and the Cloud platform on the earth.
Nebula project
NASA was the first to implement the collaborative architecture when they built Nebula which they open sourced and is now called OpenStack. Overtime many new tools were developed.
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