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Huge step for Weather Now v5 today

This weekend, I built the Production assets for Weather Now v5, which means that the production app exists. I haven't switched over the domain name yet, for reasons I will explain. But I've created the Production Deploy pipeline in Azure DevOps and it has pushed all of the bits up to the Production workloads.

Everything works, but a couple of features don't work perfectly. Specifically, the Search feature will happily find everything in the database, but right now, the database only has about 31,000 places. Also, I haven't moved any of the archival data over from v4, so the Production app only has data back to yesterday. (The Dev/Test app has data back to last May, so for about the next week it'll have more utility than Production.)

I'm going to kick the tires on the Production app for a week or so before turning off v4. I expect my Azure bill will be about $200 higher than usual this month, but my June bill should be about what my January bill is. Uploading all the archival data and the Gazetteer will cost many, many database units, and I'll keep v4 running for probably half of April, for example.

The Dev/Test version and the Production version have the same bits as of this post. Going forward, Dev/Test will get all the new features probably a week or two ahead of Prod, just like in the real world.

Plus, over the next few months I'll post explanations of how and why I did everything in v5.

I'm pretty excited. Everything from here out is incremental, so every deployment from here out should be very boring.

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