by Steve Gifford | Oct 30, 2025 | Data
Running a weather company in the cloud means processing massive amounts of data every hour. Our software engineers write our importers, and more recently, our atmospheric scientist writes the real weather code. But after our AWS Lambda costs spiraled out of control,...
by Steve Gifford | Oct 16, 2025 | Data
I work a lot with open standards and on AWS. I’ve been thinking about how some of the standards we depend on result in open-ended queries, and how I wish they were more like some of the AWS services we use to build those services. That’s especially true...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 25, 2025 | Data
If you’re not familiar, Amazon Simple Storage Service is an object storage product with a well-defined interface. You put file-like objects into it, and you can get whole objects or parts of them back out. What we had to learn, as many others have before us, is how S3...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 18, 2025 | Data, Labrador
The Web Coverage Service (WCS) is an OGC standard for retrieving time-series gridded data sets. It has a strong weather and climate focus, and that’s mostly who uses it. I say that as if it’s a well-known standard… it’s really not. Most weather...
by Steve Gifford | Sep 4, 2025 | Terrier
We’ve had wind displays on mobile for ages — those hypnotic little wind particles swirling around like they’re auditioning for a weather-themed screensaver. But now we’re bringing something new (and pointier) to the web: wind direction arrows. If you’ve ever stared at...
