Station Icons
I haven't been feeling too well lately so not a huge update today but I did want to provide an update with a few things that have changed recently.
As you would have seen we ended up using the circles for the station icons. There's multiple reasons for this and we really valued your feedback. We tried a...
2021-08-20 04:47:12 +0000 UTC View PostWe've been playing with various ideas around station icons and would love your opinion. (this is a non binding poll) Classic station icon, or simple circles. Let us know why in the comments.
Examples:
2021-08-12 10:44:40 +0000 UTC
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Along with the previous perks y'all already love from Patreon we are adding in supporter exclusive station icons for the $3, $10 and $30 tiers! While the colours aren't confirmed yet they'll look something like this.
I'll be sending out a message...
2021-08-10 06:35:29 +0000 UTC View PostLast weekend I was able to get a significant amount of working done improving the history endpoints. The APIs have been updated and you can see an improvement in the latest version of the SondeHub Python library, along with the sondehub.org/card endpoint. We can see in the screenshot the old sondehub client would take minutes to download all son...
2021-08-06 10:46:14 +0000 UTC View PostIt's only when I look back at the last post do I realise just how much stuff has changed in the SondeHub ecosystem!
SondeHub video
First up a little treat. Due to the Melbourne lockdown AWS Melbourne users group was live streamed rather than the typical in person event. This has the bonus that the talks were recorded...
2021-07-31 23:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy all,
Just wanted to provide an update as to whats been happening in SondeHub land. I've been travelling (and got caught up in a bit of a travel issue) so I haven't had a huge amount of time of time to dedicate to SondeHub.
First up, Luke has done an amazing job of converting our front end to leaflet. We've always wanted to get ...
2021-07-19 02:09:25 +0000 UTC View PostLast post I mentioned one of the improvements we've made is reducing the cost of the WebSockets feed. I want to spend sometime to explain what it is, what it's for, why it's important and our current implementation details.
In a traditional HTTP setup your client (eg browser) has to request data. This is called polling, as the client has a...
2021-06-21 00:09:04 +0000 UTC View PostRecovery markers
SondeHub Tracker now has a way of marking radiosondes as recovered.
This required a small amount of changes on the backend to accomodate the extra data, but is easily something our ElasticSearch clust...
2021-06-06 12:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostIn the release retrospect I talked a bit about reducing cost. As it stands Patreon doesn't cover the cost to run SondeHub and I make up the difference from my own pocket, so there is incentive from me to ensure whatever is implemented is not just maintainable but also affordable.
I've implemented the changes previously mentioned, whi...
2021-05-28 12:32:27 +0000 UTC View PostI've put together a dashboard of our infrastructure. Mostly to help myself monitor what's happening behind the scenes, but I thought it would be useful to share it! Enjoy :)
2021-05-24 08:16:59 +0000 UTC
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First off, thank you to all that have signed up! Still a long way before all the infrastructure costs are covered, but we are getting closer. Tell your radiosonde chaser friends to sign up!
I wanted to quickly run through how the launch of the v2 interface has gone, and what the next steps are in the project.
Launch of the v2 interfa...
2021-05-19 12:37:34 +0000 UTC View PostThanks for supporting SondeHub! As we reach closer to v2 release I wanted to share how some of our infrastructure is built.
Our infrastructure runs on Amazon Web Services for several reasons:
- It's what I'm most familiar with
- I'm able source discounts for AWS
- AWS provides high amounts of availability and scalability, letti...