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by alexander0042 4y ago
The the end of the day, the real reason I went with Lambda to build this is that when I started, I didn't know anything about spinning up a server, building a storage array, or serving an web request. But what I did know was how to wri
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by alexander0042 4y ago
You clearly know way more about cloud implementations than I do, so I really appreciate the time you took to explain that out! Since I am the dev here though, the one things I can confirm is that you're 100% correct about the setup met
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by alexander0042 4y ago
It's a real issue, that's why I made my own! The beauty of an open source one is that if things start to go off the rails, someone else could also pick up and recreate the data source
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by alexander0042 4y ago
This is a limitation of how the Developer Portal is set up, you have to be registered to view the APIs. Like the other poster said, if you're looking for general info, go to the docs section, since all the information is there
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by alexander0042 4y ago
They (sort of) are! It gets into the nuance of the weather model side of things, which I don't know as much about, but the HRRR/ GFS models ingest data from APRS and incorporate that into their forecasts. This means that these obs
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by alexander0042 4y ago
Thank you so much! I really want there to be a free level available, and it's donations like this that make it possible
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by alexander0042 4y ago
This is fascinating, thank you for sharing! What is even more amazing about Dark Sky is that they did this in 2011, when a lot of the tools I have access to now didn't exist. For Pirate Weather, I avoid working with radar data at all,
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by alexander0042 4y ago
As the dev who set up the Pirate Weather source, I couldn't agree more. 90% of the challenge here was getting the grib files into a format I could quickly and easily access, since the provided format is about as difficult as it gets. I
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by alexander0042 4y ago
I'm the dev behind this, and really appreciate all the insight from actual cloud professionals! Your guess here is spot on, I designed it so that I could more or less fit in the free tier with exactly one user, with costs scaling prett
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by alexander0042 4y ago
This is like the 5th iteration of that darn diagram, and I still can't quite get it right. The other comments are correct, the underlying setup isn't that complicated, and it wouldn't be too tricky to build it for another clo
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by alexander0042 4y ago
I'm the dev for this, so can shed some light on this! Weather Underground was a pretty out there choice- I guess the kind of people who like putting together weather APIs aren't great at naming things. I considered "Bright Gr
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by alexander0042 4y ago
Good question! It's the same underlying models, but three key differences: 1. Pirate Weather returns data following the Dark Sky syntax, as opposed to the custom NWS format. 2. Pirate Weather has global coverage, the NWS API is only fo
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by alexander0042 4y ago
I'm the dev behind this, so always great to hear things like this! I really struggled to try to come up with a name. My first thought was "Bright Ground" (opposite of Dark Sky), but that seemed a little too on the nose. Lucki
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by alexander0042 4y ago
Hi, I'm the dev behind the Pirate Weather API. I really appreciate your feedback here, since I missed that typo, but it's fixed now. I went through a ton of iterations of the subtitle, since it's a tricky thing to get right.