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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 ser…

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 …

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 sou…

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 do…

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 th…

Thank you so much! I really want there to be a free level available, and it's donations like this that make it possible

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 P…

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 …

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 fr…

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 would…

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 gr…

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. Pir…

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), bu…

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 subti…