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Using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) for More Efficient Web App Architecture

By Jenny Fung on April 23rd, 2019

Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs (COGs) are geoTIFFs hosted on a cloud or file server, and are optimized for remote reads. They proved useful in a recent project.

Screenshot of the Temperate application's dashboard

Software Engineering

AWS Enables Temperate

By Jessica Cahail and Andrew Fink-Miller on December 5th, 2018

We recently released Temperate: A new climate adaptation planning companion for cities. This blog explores how AWS, and the data they host, fueled this app.

Software Engineering

Engineer Onboarding with Breakable Toy

By Azavea on October 10th, 2018

My experience joining the Operations Team at Azavea. This was the first time my colleagues used the Breakable Toy apprenticeship pattern.

Software Engineering

Provisioning ACM Certificates on AWS with Terraform

By Hector Castro on July 16th, 2018

Learn how to create and validate certificates with a reusable Terraform module.

Software Engineering

A Terraform Module for Amazon Elastic MapReduce

By Hector Castro on December 6th, 2017

We encapsulated all resources required to launch an Amazon EMR cluster into a reusable Terraform module to leverage for batch GeoTrellis workflows with Apache Spark.