epsteinflights

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   by epsteinflights 5y ago

   Not much - I made all GraphQL requests GETs and cached them in CloudFront, which has some drawbacks but is pretty effective at keeping costs down because it allows Aurora to scale to zero as long as every request is in cache. The last week
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   by epsteinflights 5y ago

   Sure, done.
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   by epsteinflights 5y ago

   Business Insider also made searchable versions of both the black book[1] and the flight logs[2] - they're done to a much more professional standard than my buggy little side project is, but they're both unfortunately behind a payw
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   by epsteinflights 5y ago

   Email admin@epstein.flights and I'll give you the CSV I built the database from.
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   by epsteinflights 5y ago

   Yep, it's all GraphQL - I built the site a few years ago to play around with Apollo and AWS's serverless GraphQL offering and then it kind of snowballed from there.
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   by epsteinflights 5y ago

   Hey - creator and admin of the site here. Didn't ever expect to see this on HN! I built this about two years ago - looks like it's picking up some traffic this week due to the new trial. Happy to answer any questions. (Account is