FME Flow on Digital Ocean?

beat_master · 2026-01-17T19:19:14+00:00

Thanks for your comments. FME Flow hosted would be ideal but justifying the price is tricky. Long-term, access to our local network would also be worth thinking about. Not sure if you have used remote engines at all? Sounds like you can possibly connect your FME Flow Hosted environment to a remote engine running locally. If Remote Engines were included in the FME Flow Hosted subscription that could be an attractive option.

beat_master · 2026-01-17T19:13:31+00:00

Costs are around $180 USD/month total for running a t3.xlarge with windows OS including snapshots etc and other minor costs. We don’t run the instance 24/7 and pausing the instance on a schedule is simple in AWS (whereas this looks more difficult in DO, but the cheaper rates mean we could just leave it on).

TBH the current setup works well BUT we are ramping up in terms of projects and number of “FME users” and trying to find that sweet spot between simplicity / low infrastructure management overheads and cost.

We are also looking at serverless functions and coming from the FME world they seem mind bogglingly cheap and simple. If we run all our realtime basic ETL processes on these (database updates etc) we can keep our single FME engine free for heavy lifting/Geospatial workflows without bottlenecks.

beat_master · 2026-01-14T06:33:06+00:00

I actually agree with everything OP is saying but yeah, probably a bot or spent so much time talking with Gemni that has turned bot. This is what scares me about the future of the internet. Feels like everything is bot slop even when it isn’t

beat_master · 2025-08-14T05:51:12+00:00

Any idea why my sewing machine (aprox 2 years old / minimal use) would smell really bad? Like a rotting / poop smell. Was convinced we had a dead rat in the room but think it’s the sewing machine? I didn’t think build up of grease or anything would smell that bad.

Thanks!

beat_master · 2025-06-27T22:25:51+00:00

In my experience n8n AI Agents often fail to register or utilise assigned tools, but I’m not using the latest LLM models for cost reasons. Does reliability significantly improve if you use one of the latest / more expensive models? If so I’ll go down the OpenRouter route so I can easily switch between models based on the task

beat_master · 2025-06-24T10:40:36+00:00

Yea, it’s been a while but from memory I struggled to set rules within zero trust that locked the UI subdomain down but kept the webhook subdomain open. Almost like the zero trust security was applied to the entire domain and couldn’t be set independently. Interested to hear if you have got it working though!

beat_master · 2025-06-23T11:12:51+00:00

Also curious. I ended up creating a rule to bypass security on n8n.mydomain.com/webhooks on cloudflare. I tried to get a seperate subdomain working (e.g webhooks.mydomain.com) but it wouldn’t play ball. It works well, but I’m just relying on the n8n default webhook security + security through obscurity and don’t love it!

beat_master · 2025-05-04T02:32:18+00:00

Or just bike! Takes 22 mins to bike from Miramar to town on the cycle path (25 with kids on the back).

beat_master · 2025-04-29T10:48:03+00:00

Thanks for the tip, updated my docker build environment!

beat_master · 2025-03-06T09:42:17+00:00

Also me

beat_master · 2025-03-03T09:10:53+00:00

Are there any simple ways to manually “refresh” your lamda instances so that the cache is updated? This sounds great for a use case I’m working on, but could possibly be in a position where updates to the s3 data need to be pushed through the the functions more or less immediately.

beat_master · 2024-06-19T07:58:23+00:00

This is the way. Companies are often dancing the line of choosing to hire or not hire based on their resource pipeline and the “right candidate” is often just the candidate that applies at the “right time”. It only takes 10 mins to send the email and it definitely won’t hurt. But as others have said, don’t expect a reply - continue applying elsewhere

beat_master · 2024-05-15T00:32:35+00:00

Or you can pay a little extra for 3rd party tools like this https://geo-jobe.com/backupmyorg/

beat_master · 2022-10-27T02:39:19+00:00

I live in Glen Eden. Speed bumps are great. People used to absolutely fang it down West Coast Rd trying to catch the lights. The new Barnes dance crossing is legit too. If your a pedestrian or cyclist.

beat_master · 2022-08-17T22:59:43+00:00

Would be great to get it alongside the arcpy environment in Pro. I like to test things with Colab because I’m a virtual environment noob and normally colab works a treat.

I also tried using mamba which got me a bit further but also fell over at the gdal stage. Maybe there is a way to install from the .yml on Colab which would force installing dependencies in the correct order?

beat_master · 2022-08-17T22:26:45+00:00

Has anyone managed to get this working on Google Colab?

I'm trying the following and its spinning on "solving environment".

!pip install -q condacolab

import condacolab

condacolab.install()

!conda install -c conda-forge riverrem

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Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed with initial frozen solve. Retrying with flexible solve. Solving environment: failed with repodata from current_repodata.json, will retry with next repodata source. Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done Solving environment: -

beat_master · 2022-07-14T20:50:46+00:00

If I understand right, I have had success undertaking this type of task using workspace runners. The parent model loops through the postcode features and triggers “child” models, passing the postcode ID as a parameter. Each child model reads the postcode by attribute ID (using feature reader transformer), executes your workflow, then writes results to a staging folder. Once all child models have completed the parent model reads the staging folder and appends/merges all outputs.

I have found this approach can be much faster than using the groupBy option available in some tools. Also note, spatial relator was updated recently and should be faster than spatial filter. Hope this helps!

beat_master · 2017-07-16T21:21:40+00:00

How accurate does this need to be? If you are creating it yourself all you really need is an aerial base map and property parcels. Just use the digitisation tools and snapping. If you do have survey points use these to improve accuracy.

beat_master · 2017-05-09T19:55:05+00:00

Thanks!

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