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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon Green-Software-Foundation

Define our 'value add' in our documentation

Open Sophietn opened this issue 9 months ago • 2 comments

Why use the CA SDK and not the electricity maps/watttime APIs directly?

This Q came up in the last Opensource Working Group call, and I (who's close to the project) don't even feel clear on the answer. Making this glaringly obvious in our docs and sharing in gsf-wide newsletter might help us gain new adopters.

Notes from a quick chat with @danuw on this topic

  1. Coverage

The SDK allows for quicker changing between data sources eg. WattTime and ElectricityMaps, than developing and maintaining a separate integration for each API data provider. The SDK also allows you to add your own data sources.

  1. Standardised access

Get started quicker - no need to be own broker of the APIs. We handle the upgrades, so users only need to change credentials / endpoints?

  1. Benefit from other users past experiences of the data source APIs. De-duplicate efforts.

Sophietn avatar May 17 '24 12:05 Sophietn