Future Areas

At this time, we plan to develop the tile server approach in the following areas:

• Implement caching at the application level with zarr metadata caching.
• Add support for unconsolidated metadata.
• Add support for HDF5
• Implement caching at the API level with CloudFront.

At this time, the following areas of research and development are of interest but are unplanned:

• Exacting guidelines on when to create pyramids. For example, if your dataset is x chunk shape and size and you expect y performance, you should or should not create z levels of pyramid.
• Understand the impact of latency and caching for layers of AWS services. We expect there may be some caching in the S3 service but have not tested or verified this.
• There is latency introduced with the API Gateway and Lambda services. It may be helpful to estimate the latency for these layers and different expected dataset configurations.