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Old Feb 14, 2024 | 8:24 am
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While an interesting concept, I suspect the API has now been overloaded. :-/ It's possible the backing services were not sized for public-internet level traffic as a poster mentioned above.



Is the App still functioning well?

I agree with pythonisman. I'd definitely implement some form of a caching layer in AWS or something that minimizes traffic to the actual endpoint itself. Keep that traffic from your caching layer to this endpoint to under 1 request every 1-5 minutes or so and I'm sure you'll stay under the radar just fine. I doubt the occupancy data is being updated more frequently than that anyway....

Edited to add - Link seems to be working fine again. Interesting level of data that is being returned!

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