Optimizing Software Engineering For Scalability And Cost
Lessons learned from running Pirate Weather: traffic spikes, monitoring & costs optimization with AWS serverless infrastructure.
Since launching Pirate Weather in 2021, I have learned an incredible amount about some of the upsides and downsides to running a weather API. Some things have worked well, some have not, but overall, it has been an unparalleled experience. While I’ve written a number of blog posts about specific aspects of this service, I wanted to take some time to put a few stray thoughts together about topics that are important, but not enough to write a whole post about. Traffic spikes- good news and bad news Thanks to some incredibly exiting press coverage, Pirate Weather was made the internet r...