January 2026 monthly summary for Element84/filmdrop-aws-tf-modules. Highlights include delivering a TiTiler Lambda Asset Proxying Enhancement that enables GDAL to access extension-less proxy hrefs by excluding CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS in the Lambda environment. This was implemented in commit 875404aa68a31711506ddde7207332ddbe7f109f with the message: "Enable exclusion of CPL_VSIL_CURL_ALLOWED_EXTENSIONS env var (#238))". Business value: improved asset proxying reliability and compatibility for extension-less proxies in stac-server workflows, reducing configuration friction for downstream users. No major bugs fixed this month. Technologies demonstrated: AWS Lambda, TiTiler, GDAL, stac-server asset proxying, Terraform modules, environment variable configuration, and Git/PR workflow.

September 2025 delivered a targeted enhancement to the Cirrus-Geo deployment workflow by introducing a new CIRRUS_DATA_BUCKET parameter in the Element84/filmdrop-aws-tf-modules repository. This enables Cirrus-Geo deployment and CLI operations to reference a dedicated SSM Parameter Store entry, simplifying configuration and improving deployment reliability across environments. The change was implemented in Terraform, documented in the CHANGELOG, and committed to source control for traceability.

February 2025: Delivered asynchronous and optional searching for opportunities in stapi-fastapi. By refactoring backend implementations from Protocol classes to Callable type aliases, we prepared the codebase for async execution and introduced endpoints with test coverage for async and optional search functionality. This sets the foundation for non-blocking, scalable opportunity search and improves reliability as usage scales.