Introducing Our New WWA Weather Data Pipeline

by Steve Gifford | Dec 11, 2025 | Boxer, Labrador, Terrier

We are delighted to announce we’ve added National Weather Service Warnings, Watches, and Alerts to our products, and this update introduces our new focus on WWA weather data. The initial integration is with Terrier for Mobile, and the screenshot above is from an...

New RAP Smoke Model Data from NOAA Now in Our Stack

by Steve Gifford | Nov 6, 2025 | Data, GeoService, Web Coverage Service

We’re excited to announce that RAP Smoke model data from NOAA is now part of the products we ingest and deliver to our customers. This addition gives developers and analysts a new way to visualize smoke movement and density across North America. It is especially...

Keeping It Simple: Our Approach to Fargate Container Management

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,...

Smarter Query Design with OGC Services and AWS

by Steve Gifford | Oct 16, 2025 | GeoService, Web Coverage Service

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...

Amazon S3 Cost Optimization: What We Learned (the Hard Way)

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...