General Guidance

Always-current state

The platform streams the live state of every aircraft: each record is a complete, up-to-the-moment snapshot — every field currently known for that aircraft. You're always working with its freshest position and status.

Each field appears as soon as a current value is available for it — see the Aircraft reference.

Reconnection

Streams can drop unexpectedly — network blips, planned platform updates, or transient errors. Build your client to auto-reconnect with exponential backoff (e.g. 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s etc) and resume the stream automatically.

Network

The Streaming Platform is hosted in AWS us-west-2 (Oregon) and works well from any location with a reasonable internet connection. The closer your consumer sits to that region — by physical distance or network path — the lower the round-trip latency and the higher the sustained throughput.

Zstd compression

The Streaming Platform supports Zstd compression at the gRPC transport layer.