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Posted by theazureguy 5 days ago

UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations(www.fuelinsight.co.uk)
194 points | 100 commentspage 2
zikohh 4 days ago|
Love the site. I do wonder why waze hasn't adopted the UK govt new API to give better fuel info as you drive.

I prefer Google maps but they never had petrol prices....

Any Waze Devs here? Tried to raise a feature request but it was such a pain

traceroute66 5 days ago||
Nice work, couple of observations ...

The interactive map seems to be a bit broken (lots of grey dots vs brand colours, lots of broken mouseovers where many stations don't show price on hover)

Dashboard Price Comparison, you really need to re-think the colours, perhaps especially Shell Red vs Esso Red

theazureguy 5 days ago|
really appreciate you taking the time to check it properly. I will get them both fixed some time this week!
badc0ffee 5 days ago||
Interesting that the prices were at their highest level a month ago and not today. Here in Calgary the prices seemed to be C$1.829/L (US$5.09/gal or £0.99/L) this weekend, and I don't think I've ever seen them that high before in Alberta.
multjoy 5 days ago||
Good work, that. The area data is very interesting as well, but what surprises me is the relatively low spread excluding motorways.

I would rather push the car then pay motorway prices.

mdrzn 3 days ago||
Very interesting! Inspired me to make the same thing for the IT market: prezziallapompa.it
Already__Taken 5 days ago||
The Tesco premium/super e5 is so much cheaper than everyone else I'm actually pretty sceptical of it.
theazureguy 5 days ago|
checked the db, tesco e5 is 163.8p average across 292 stations in the last 21 days. Worth spot checking a few specific stations if it still looks off to you.
Already__Taken 5 days ago||
Awe, yes sorry I'm sceptical of Tesco not your data.
_joel 5 days ago||
Cheapest stations look very off, to me.
JDSP 4 days ago||
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omara123 5 days ago||
this is one of the coolest most random things ive seen. idk why this resonated with me so much ahahah
peterdrohan 5 days ago|
bros server crashed
morkalork 5 days ago|
Well they did call themselves the azure guy
theazureguy 5 days ago||
haha not quite, db was struggling under the load for a few minutes. b1ms postgres doesn't love 6k requests in 30 mins.
firefoxd 5 days ago|||
A 30 second memcached/redis/etc goes a long way when sharing on HN. You go from 6k db hits to 60 hits in 30 minutes. Worked for me since 2013 [0].

[0]: https://idiallo.com/blog/handling-1-million-web-request

theazureguy 5 days ago||
already on it, just shipped in-memory output caching while the thread was live. next step redis if it needs it
GordonS 5 days ago||||
Those tiny b1ms VMs are absolutely pitiful (long time Azure sufferer here). It's crazy how little compute and memory Azure give you for so much money.
theazureguy 5 days ago||
yeah scaling it up now, was hoping to keep costs down but HN had other ideas
isoprophlex 5 days ago|||
Using azure managed PG is certainly an interesting choice if you were hoping to keep costs down
alentodorov 5 days ago|||
try CF. tried a version of this in feb, and it handles quite fine even under ai bot surges of 1.5m hits per day. and it’s still within the free limit btw ;)

stationwatch.co.uk

kaiwn 5 days ago|||
That’s… 3.3 r/s?
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