I Built a US Grid Telemetry API Using Azure Functions and Python

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Hey HN, I'm a SysAdmin turned Dev. Leaving your mining rigs unmonitored for the holidays is a risk, so I built a tool to automate it. I got tired of the delayed/fragmented data from ISOs like PJM and ERCOT, so I built a normalized API to track grid stress in real-time. The Stack: Scrapers: Python 3.11 (Pandas/Requests) handling the messy ISO formats. Compute: Azure Functions (Consumption Plan) to keep costs near zero. Storage: Azure Data Lake Gen2 (Parquet) for historical retention. I also wrote a simple Python client 'kill-switch' for Bitcoin miners to automate curtailment during price spikes. Repo is here: https://github.com/Norris-Eng/gridwatch-kill-switch API is here: https://rapidapi.com/cnorris1316/api/gridwatch-us-telemetry Happy to answer questions about the scraping logic or Azure costs!

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