Scaling API-based Microservices in ASDC's On-Premise Cloud Environment for Retrieval of Atmospheric Science Data

The Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) offers Earth Science data sets created from satellite measurements, modeling, and field experiments enabling scientists, educators, and the public to study earth and its atmosphere. NASA ESDIS is working towards making Earth Science data and tools cloud-ready. In an effort to align itself with these efforts, the ASDC is transitioning its existing web based services, tools and applications to RESTful APIs, containerized as microservices to leverage scalability and efficiency of an on-premise cloud environment.

This presentation showcases:

- Containerized web service utilizing ASDC's on-premise cloud environment

- Implementation of data subsetting services for atmospheric data

- Performance metrics (comparison statistics with existing services)

- Technical challenges encountered in transitioning legacy services