posidonius VS ngrok

Observatory of Geneva | Rust/Python Software Engineer | Geneva (Switzerland) | Hybrid Schedule | Full time (2.5 years)

The Observatory of Geneva (World renown in the field of exoplanetology, where Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz detected the first exoplanet, which got them a Nobel Prize in physics in 2019), in collaboration with the CEA (a French public government-funded research organization), will be seeking one talented junior software engineer to develop and improve two scientific codes which will predict the destiny of planetary systems (ESPEM & Posidonius, see https://github.com/marblestation/posidonius).

The successful candidate will:

- Collect the requirements (e.g., the code must run in multiple operating systems, provide pluggable solvers) that will inform future decisions about the design and implementation of a new ESPEM;

- Evaluate the use of more modern programming languages and design patterns (such as Rust and Python 3) for the new ESPEM;

- Design and implement a new version of ESPEM, reproducing the physics present in the current version of ESPEM but following the best coding practices;

- Design building blocks that will allow the implementation of new physics in a modular architecture for the new ESPEM;

- Implementation and integration of new physics in ESPEM and Posidonius;

- Write the corresponding documentation;

- Write unit tests to reach a coverage above 80% of the code;

- Identify optimizations that could help reduce the execution time, particularly certain functionalities that are more computing intense;

- Write visualization routines to easily explore the results.

Entry salary of 85,000 CHF with annual revisions + flexible schedule/environment (up to two days of allowed remote work) + friendly working culture with nice work-life balance + international travels (e.g. CEA headquarters in the Paris region, conferences).

Your contribution will be open source and it will have a world-wide impact in the exoplanet community!

Contact us with your CV and/or your questions: emeline.bolmont at unige.ch

We encourage applications from minorities, women, individuals with disabilities, and all other qualified applicants!

Many good reverse proxy solutions currently exist on the market such as ngrok and Cloudflare tunnels. They give one the ability to reliably run a tunnel and ensure it does not go down. They also offer the ability to securely access their links using whitelisted IP addresses or by using HTTP Basic Authentication.

These is a very common problem. Luckily, it's been solved already. My go-to tool for this was ngrok or localtunnel. Both of these tools are great, but they didn't fit my needs perfectly.

Ensure your app works as expected and provides a good user experience by thoroughly testing and debugging. Utilize tools like Chrome DevTools or Firefox Developer Tools to inspect and modify your app’s code, network, and storage. Employ tools like ngrok or localtunnel to expose your local development server to the internet, enabling testing on various devices and browsers.

ngrok

Tunnels (CloudFlare vs. Ngrok)

We need to make our WhatsApp API accessible on the internet so the trigger.dev cloud service can connect to it. We can do that by running ngrok in a separate terminal.

This means that Cronitor must have an endpoint that it can reach. Normally, we can't do that when developing on a personal machine. For this tutorial, however, we can use ngrok to establish a tunnel to our local Django application for testing purposes.

There are so many weird suggestions in the comments. I'm surprised nobody has mentioned ngrok https://ngrok.com/ (there are many competing alternatives as well). It makes exposing local service over HTTPS trivial. It's been used heavily in most of my engineering orgs.

Ngrok: This provides about 2hours on the free account but requires account registration and adding your authtoken, and starting it is as simple as running ngrok http 8080