Airborne - real time flights

Components

The fetcher is a lambda function that periodically fetches current flight info from the Opensky Network and writes these flight states to Dynamo.

The provider is a chalice microservice that serves these results on demand, with CORS enabled.

The infrastructure directory contains a simple Terraform config to define the flight states Dynamo table.

Deploy

• Install apex, chalice, terraform

• Deploy the fetcher lambda

cd fetcher
apex init
apex deploy

• Add dynamo db full access to lambda role

• Add CloudWatch timer trigger to lambda

• Deploy the chalice microservice

cd provider
chalice deploy

Possible extensions

• Use terraform to define CloudWatch event rule, Lambda trigger, Lambda role
• Store and display historical flight states, not just current