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I want to ask my students to add me as their coach at khanacademy.org.
Q: What kind of data can I get from Khan Academy's API? Can I get the videos that they've watched, or their badges?
It took me 3 seconds of googling to find this
From their documentation -
Videos they've watched https://github.com/Khan/khan-api/wiki/Khan-Academy-API-Methods#wiki-user-videos
Badges they've earned - https://github.com/Khan/khan-api/wiki/Khan-Academy-API-Methods#wiki-badges
From :Kahn API Explorer
Authenticated api calls will give you information about the logged in user (either a student or a coach/parent), such as videos seen, exercises completed, playlist progress and so forth. This repository's README includes helpful instructions (and a python script) for authenticated api calls. Try it out!
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How could a company's first technical employee (or a consultant) integrate cloud service costs into the company budget? My thinking is that when you build "serverless" or "autoscaling" services the company may ask
How much will this cost? $10/month? $1,000/month?
and it seems unclear how to manage those costs.
If we just do an example. Let's say I build a Heroku or Cloud Run (GCP) hosted dashboard, or a simple web app using Firebase. Who pays for it? I don't want company tools to run out of my credit card for obvious reasons.
Make sure you have technical solution of your problem.
Then, find out the size of your data in each request. How much bandwidth you will use? Where you will store the data? How much CPU you will use? etc.
Based on this extrapolate your cost for whole month.
Based on that you can use GCP calculator https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator
I would recommend to start with one of the major cloud providers free plans, for example in AWS you can open free account for 12 month and you can start building your serverless code, create api, store data and much more. after getting confidence with your solution you can present it to your company and decide later if they want to continue with payable usage or not.
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Our website is an eCommerce store trading in ethically sourced loose diamonds. We do not get much traffic and yet our Amazon bill is huge ($300/month for 1,500 unique visits). Is this normal?
I do know we are daily doing some database pulling twice from another source and that the files are large. Does it make sense to just use regular hosting for this process and then the Amazon one just for our site?
Most of the cost is for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. About 20% is for RDS service.
I am wondering if:
(a) our developers have done something which leads to this kind of usage OR
(b) Amazon is just really expensive
IS THERE A PAID FOR SERVICE WHICH WE CAN USE TO ENSURE OUR SITE IS OPTIMISED FOR ITS HOSTING - in terms of cost, usage and speed?
It should probably cost you around 30-50 dollars a month. 300 seems higher than necessary.
for 1500 vistors, you can get away with using an m1.small instance most likely
I'd say check out the AWS trusted advisor service that will tell you about your utilization and where you can optimize your usage, but you can only get that with AWS Business support (100/month). However considering your way over what is expected, it might be worth looking into
Trusted advisor will inform you of quite a few things:
cost optimization
security
fault tolerance
performance
I've generally found it to be one of the most useful additions to my AWS infrastructure.
Additionally if you were to sign up for Business support, not only do you get trusted advisor, but you can ask questions directly to the support staff via chat, email, or phone. Would also be quite useful to help you pinpoint your problem areas.
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Would it be more cost effective for a small business (around 25 concurrent users) to buy a PAF database and code it up ourselves or use a Postcode service such as Postcode Anywhere?
The Royal Mail site is really confusing! http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/address-management-unit/address-data-products/postcode-address-file-paf/prices
We operate 24 hours a day and at any one time, we have between 1 and 25 users doing postcode searches. We are currently using a PAYG service and it is really pricey so we want to buy a PAF database and create our own. I don't understand the pricing on the link above (basically we're looking at something in the region of £2 to £49,500?!)
Also, what do you actually get with a PAF database? As in what kind of files do they send you, is there an API and do you pay a one off fee or an ongoing fee? Do you have to agree to the delete the data once you stop paying royal mail?
Thanks
For the time it would take to code it up yourselves, it would be more time and cost efficient to go with someone like Postcode Anywhere. They'll also provide guaranteed first class service along with service updates to improve service.
We use them on a lesser-scale (after moving from QAS which were crap in comparison).
Have you investigated pricing with any providers yet - if so, what's it coming out at?
I can't add anymore to the answer by Alan, which describes how the files are provided and how it needs to be done.
You get a bunch of flat files and need to use the PAF programmers guide to help build yourself a system
http://www.royalmail.com/marketing-services/address-management-unit/address-data-products/programmers-guide
See also
www royalmail.com/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/01_tell_me_the_basics.pdf
www royalmail.com/pafnews
You're probably better off buying some package www poweredbypaf.com/
You don't need to purchase the Royal Mail Postcode Address File (PAF). There are lots of API's available.
getAddress.io is the only one I've found that's free:
https://getAddress.io
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Any service that allows to geocode ip address to a location level accuracy in india ?
please let me know.
The is also an api available from [HostIP][1] that you can use to get the geolocation.
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We are looking for a reliable "current weather" web service for Europe, with city resolution. We only need the current weather.
Since it is for a commercial web site, we don't mind paying a reasonable fee for the service.
What are our options? What service would you recommend or avoid based on previous experience?
Note: SOAP Web Service, XML RPC, REST, all are fine.
The US NOAA has coded METAR information available for cities worldwide. Given the ICAO airport code for the city in question (eg. EGLL for London) you can quickly get a METAR report.
Weather Underground is a successful weather site that cover most of the world. We've used their data sometimes at work. They offer weather XML feeds and API which includes access to current observations.
http://www.weather2u.com provide a commercial service with global coverage. However they, like most global weather sites use model derived data from the NOAA National Weather Service, the accuracy of which compares unfavourably with local national weather services, especially for coastal regions.
Get it direct from the UK's Meteorological Office. they provide datafeeds for the world in several formats. If you prefer european dedicated feeds (of which the UK provides data anyway), you want to check ecomet
I would use google weather feed ;) I have not found how to read it out but it clearly is great source How to parse XML in JavaScript from Google
You should be able to interface with Yahoo weather Europe like the team of the weather plasmoid did.
Or if you only need to add it to a web page you could use directly this gadget