March 25, 2025

What are you building?

Focus on your product, not your software stack

What are you building? Is it a satellite, as in this drawing, or a complete ground system? Is it a hardware component or a software test framework? Are you spending hours ($$$) of engineering time building and maintaining software as a means to the end goal of creating the product that you actually sell? Are you frustrated with the time spent researching architectures, upgrading software and closing CVEs (security issues)? 

As a provider of a software test framework and the command and control part of a complete ground, I often ask these questions. We don't re-invent the wheel when it comes to browsers, presentation software, spreadsheets, etc, yet I see many companies toiling over their specific test and ops software suite. Is that what you're building or is it just draining engineering hours away from your actual products? People frequently underestimate the effort required to build and maintain modern software.

OpenC3 COSMOS is a modern architecture with backend containers based on Alpine running Ruby and Python and a frontend framework written in Vue.js utilizing the Vuetify GUI framework. We're all full stack developers juggling multiple languages and problem domains. Our Enterprise product adds in cloud support meaning helm charts to enable Kubernetes deployments on AWS along with Keycloak authentication and role based access control.

We actively respond to feature recommendations from our customers and then release these enhancements to all COSMOS users benefiting everyone. Customers simply get updated software and can continue to use their hardware interfaces, protocols, and test scripts as before. Our ease of use and configuration is legendary with text based configuration files that can be easily modified and diffed.

Before spending more engineering time and money upgrading your existing stack, schedule a Demo of COSMOS to see how we can unburden your test and ops team and let you focus on what matters most.

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