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DESCRIPTION:The TOLIMAN space telescope is a low-cost mission to detect exo
 planets via astrometry\, with a focus on the Alpha Centauri binary system\
 , our nearest-neighbor star system. The data processing pipeline will be d
 eployed on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to best cater to the internatio
 nal collaboration. The pipeline utilizes a persistent GCP Virtual Machine 
 (VM) running the Dagster orchestration software. Each data processing task
  is packaged as a Docker image and executed as an ephemeral Cloud Run job\
 , with processed data stored in a GCP bucket and a PostgreSQL database hos
 ted on Google Cloud SQL.  The prototype\, our first data pipeline on Googl
 e Cloud\, was built by leveraging the Claude Code agentic coding tool\, wh
 ich facilitated rapid learning of the necessary tools. A streamlined devel
 opment cycle enabled us to investigate\, implement\, and test in fast succ
 ession\, resulting in a working pipeline within three weeks of initial con
 ceptualization. We found Claude Code to be immensely useful but could resu
 lt in unnecessary complexity and software bloat without proper human super
 vision. We will discuss our observations and recommendations for using Cla
 ude Code for scientific software engineering.
DTSTAMP:20261113T204901Z
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2
SUMMARY:Prototyping a Space-Based Observatory Pipeline in Three Weeks with 
 Claude Code - Jeffrey Smith
URL:https://pretalx.adass.org/adass2026/talk/HADJDP/
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