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2020-11-06 01:15:00
Fireduck
I say I am trying to stike a balance as I figure out the national weather service api to get alerts
2020-11-06 05:29:50
Fireduck
ok, scope creep question of the day....I am builing my home automation display
2020-11-06 05:30:12
Fireduck
it will display a bunch of system status stuff only of interest to me, some stock and crypto prices
2020-11-06 05:30:16
Fireduck
some weather data
2020-11-06 05:30:44
Fireduck
so I am thinking of getting the data from Nation Weather Service directly, since as a US tax payer, I already pay for it
2020-11-06 05:31:23
Fireduck
I was thinking of building a notification system, where there was an AWS SNS topic for each county that people could subscribe to if they want NWS alerts as well
2020-11-06 05:32:34
Fireduck
I guess I shouldn't do that. For that I feel like I would actually have to put on my distributed systems engineer hat and build it properly
2020-11-06 05:32:47
Fireduck
with multiple nodes and master election or autohealing of some sort
2020-11-06 05:32:51
Fireduck
to ensure that it was reliable
2020-11-06 05:33:10
Fireduck
which is fine, but involved running more crap in the cloud that I have to pay for
2020-11-06 06:11:53
Rotonen
run your own cloud without redundancy?
2020-11-06 06:14:34
Fireduck
I think a service where I am relaying alerts that people might make safety decisions on should have a higher bar
2020-11-06 06:28:27
Rotonen
do the something aweful route, 5usd for lifetime access
2020-11-06 07:00:32
Fireduck
yeah, it really wouldn't cost much to do well. SNS would be doing most of the hard part.
2020-11-06 07:00:54
Fireduck
Of course, I wrote a good chunk of SNS. I wonder how much of my code is still running there.