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GitOps for Geospatial Data: Zero-Cost Pipeline with GitHub Actions
A developer built Village Finder, an open-source app tracking 78,000 Indian villages, using a serverless GitOps pipeline. The system treats data as code, generating static JSON/CSV files via GitHub Actions with zero infrastructure cost. It separates structural data (via PRs) from volatile metrics (via historyless branches) for auditability and rollbacks.
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The approach cleverly eliminates cloud costs but trades real-time updates for Git-based latency, making it suitable for slowly changing reference data rather than live dashboards.
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