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Location Without Limits: Building Scaleable Geospatial Services

Addresscloud’s Intelligence service presented at the 2021 GIS Research UK Conference as an example of a geospatial application built using a serverless microservices architecture.

Conference

Lightning Talk: Serverless GeoTiffs

Slides from my recent presentation at Rasters Revealed 2021 on Rasterio and AWS Lambda container images.

Technology

Serverless PostGIS

Expanding on my recent presentation at FOSS4G UK Online 2020 this post looks at our experience running Serverless PostGIS using AWS Aurora for Postgres.

Cloud

Building for Scale: Serverless for Geospatial

Serverless is at the heart of Addresscloud - it is the mechanism by which our service scales to support hundreds of underwriters performing thousands of transactions every day.

Cloud

How We Ship Serverless

Using GitHub Actions and Terraform Cloud we're able to build a continuous testing and delivery workflow to ship our serverless applications. We've published our Terraform Cloud Action on the GitHub marketplace.

Technology

Serverless Geospatial

It's an exciting time to be building geospatial tech. The volume and quality of geographic data that are now available are unprecedented. Serverless affords the opportunity to create applications without the overheads of server and database management.

Cloud

#GeoMob Presentation

Faster Rasters in the Cloud - presented at #GeoMob London. In the presentation I focused on how a serverless approach helped us solve the business challenge of creating efficient services around large data-sets.

Flood

A Serverless Solution for Faster Flood Queries

Mapped on a five metre grid a single raster image of Great Britain contains 24.2 billion pixels. Raster datasets make big geographic information easy to share and quick to visualise. But what