Weathersource is a weather forecast data collection service. It uses Dark Sky API to upload the weather forecast data into the cache storage and exposes web UI to read and analyze the uploaded data.
One of the main purposes of this service is to test the efficiency of the web assets (files with extensions .html, .js, .css, and so on) compiled as binary data into a Golang execution file.
The service consumes the following environment variables:
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WEATHER_DARKSKY_TOKEN - a security token required to download forecast data from Dark Sky API. Must be specified.
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WEATHER_LOC_LATITUDE - The latitude of the geographical location of the weather forecast. This variable is mandatory and must be specified as decimal fraction, e.g.
-153.5689. -
WEATHER_LOC_LONGITUDE - The longitude of the geographical location of the weather forecast. This variable is mandatory and must be specified as decimal fraction, e.g.
24.84348. -
WEATHER_UPDATE_INTERVAL - The time interval to download forecast data from Dark Sky API. Must be in the format that
time.ParseDuration()function understands. If not specified, it defaults to 5 minutes. -
WEATHER_DB_DSN - The DSN of the MySQL database to persist (cache) all weather forecast data. Must be specified.
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WEATHER_GRPC_PORT - The port number to expose gRPC service on. If not specified, it defaults to
8081. -
WEATHER_HTTP_PORT - The port number to expose HTTP server on (Web UI/API). If not specified, it defaults to
8080.