On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:14 AM Rich Kulawiec <r...@gsp.org> wrote: > > Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key > > data > > The National Weather Service is proposing to place limits on accessing its > > life-saving weather data in a bid to fix Internet outages. > > By Jason Samenow and Andrew Freedman > > > > https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/09/nws-data-limits-internet-bandwidth/
> This seems like a problem that this group could solve rather rapidly with > minimal > incremental expense. It also seems like one that's very much worth solving. If I had to venture a guess, it's not a network problem it's a web server problem. It's far too easy to design a web server where each request consumes 10 to 100 times the processing that it absolutely needs to, often with database bottlenecks that further constrain scalability. Put such a system under broad load and of course it collapses. Regards, Bill Herrin -- Hire me! https://bill.herrin.us/resume/
