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The Premier League said there will be only limited VAR today w/o the automatic offside system becasue of the AWS outage. Weird timeline we live in https://www.

• magarnicle 1y ago
  A silver lining to this cloud (outage).
• iammrpayments 1y ago
  Why is VAR connected to the internet? Are they trying to gather data on offside players customers to improve recommedations?
  • ashikns 1y ago
    I worked in a similar system. The raw data from the field first goes to a cloud hosted event queue of some sort, then a database, then back to whatever app/screen on field. The data doesn't just power on-field displays. There's a lot of online websites, etc that needs to pull data from an api.
  • afavour 1y ago
    I wouldn't be at all surprised if people pay for API access to the data. I've worked with live sports data before, it's a very profitable industry to be in when you're the one selling the data. Of course in a sane world you'd have an internal fallback for when cloud connectivity fails but I'm sure someone looked at the cost and said "eh, what's the worst that could happen?"