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by tonymet
875 days ago
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We only know based on the information we have that they are sharing CSV files via REST on AWS/EC2. That’s the most expensive way to share it, and also risky . What’s spammy about my post? I have asked people to focus on costs when they make general statements like “all govt data should have a REST api”. |
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I think we can dispense with the risky argument, because this API has existed for years without issue.
When you make the argument that "X is too expensive," the onus is on you to prove it's expensive in a relative sense, not simply in an absolute sense. Saving $100 matters if you're spending $1000; it probably doesn't matter if you're spending $10m. Feel free to convince us: make some estimates, crunch some numbers, and look at existing NPS IT spending and see if they seem ballpark reasonable. Otherwise you're just banging on about a left-field solution that almost no one wants because it's putatively cheaper (but by how much, you can't say).