How software can feed the World

Infarm is a FaaS, Farming as a Service, and whether you believe it or not, our business is in-house farming at scale.

We design and build our farms, grow vegetables and sell them, and the backbone of our infrastructure is based on Python and completely cloud based.

More than 10 million observations recorded from our farms, rapidly increasing given our expansion to new markets, feed our farm management system that allows the operators, plant scientists, and supervisors to monitor each farm in real-time.

During this talk I will introduce our IoT infrastructure, software architecture, how we use python and how we plan to improve the capabilities of our farms by adding edge machine learning.

Transcript

1. @CHRISTIANBARRA // EUROPYTHON 2019 HOW SOFTWARE CAN FEED THE WORLD
4. @christianbarra CAN SOFTWARE FEED THE WORLD?
5. @christianbarra WHY SHOULD WE BOTHER?
10. @christianbarra PROBLEMS WE NEED TO MAKE CITIES MORE SUSTAINABLE WE NEED TO AVOID HUNGER WE CAN’T INCREASE CROPLANDS WE CAN’T TERRAFORM THE SEA
11. @christianbarra PROBLEMS WE NEED TO MAKE CITIES MORE SUSTAINABLE WE NEED TO AVOID HUNGER WE CAN’T INCREASE CROPLANDS WE CAN’T TERRAFORM THE SEA
12. @christianbarra PROBLEMS WE NEED TO MAKE CITIES MORE SUSTAINABLE WE NEED TO AVOID HUNGER WE CAN’T INCREASE CROPLANDS WE CAN’T TERRAFORM THE SEA
13. @christianbarra SOLUTIONS REDUCE WASTE ! CHANGE OUR DIET " USE TECHNOLOGY #
14. @christianbarra SOLUTIONS REDUCE WASTE ! CHANGE OUR DIET " USE TECHNOLOGY #
15. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
16. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
17. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
18. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
19. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
20. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
21. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
22. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
23. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
24. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
25. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
26. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM
27. @christianbarra PILLARS FARM CONTROL OPERATIONS MONITORING & ALERTING PLANTS QUALITY
28. @christianbarra PILLARS FARM CONTROL OPERATIONS MONITORING & ALERTING PLANTS QUALITY
29. @christianbarra PILLARS FARM CONTROL OPERATIONS MONITORING & ALERTING PLANTS QUALITY
30. @christianbarra PILLARS FARM CONTROL OPERATIONS MONITORING & ALERTING PLANTS QUALITY
31. @christianbarra PILLARS FARM CONTROL OPERATIONS MONITORING & ALERTING PLANTS QUALITY
32. @christianbarra PILLARS FARM CONTROL OPERATIONS MONITORING & ALERTING PLANTS QUALITY
33. @christianbarra 1 BIG FLASK APP SMALL TEAM OPERATIONS & FARM CONTROL & MONITORING & ALERTING CELERY FOR BACKGROUND JOBS PAST SOFTWARE
34. @christianbarra 1 BIG FLASK APP SMALL TEAM OPERATIONS & FARM CONTROL & MONITORING & ALERTING CELERY FOR BACKGROUND JOBS PAST SOFTWARE
35. @christianbarra ISSUES SOFTWARE TOO MANY UNMAINTAINED DEPEDENCIES SCALIBILITY ISSUES LEAKY ABSTRACTIONS ORM-ALIZED
36. @christianbarra ISSUES SOFTWARE TOO MANY UNMAINTAINED DEPEDENCIES SCALIBILITY ISSUES LEAKY ABSTRACTIONS ORM-ALIZED
37. @christianbarra ISSUES SOFTWARE TOO MANY UNMAINTAINED DEPEDENCIES SCALIBILITY ISSUES LEAKY ABSTRACTIONS ORM-ALIZED
38. @christianbarra ISSUES SOFTWARE FIGHTING WITH HEROKU NO CONTAINERS LACK OF USABLE LOGS/METRICS 4 DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS
39. @christianbarra ISSUES SOFTWARE FIGHTING WITH HEROKU NO CONTAINERS LACK OF USABLE LOGS/METRICS 4 DIFFERENT CLOUD PROVIDERS
40. @christianbarra ARCHITECTURE CONSOLIDATE CLOUD NATIVE OBSERVABILITY EVOLUTION SOFTWARE
41. @christianbarra CONSOLIDATE PAY TECHNICAL DEBTS DEPRECATE ALL THE CLOUD PROVIDERS AND MOVE TO GCP WE ❤ LINTERS: FLAKE8, ISORT, BLACK AND MYPY BUILD VS BUY & VS UNMANAGED VS MANAGED
42. @christianbarra CONSOLIDATE PAY TECHNICAL DEBTS DEPRECATE ALL THE CLOUD PROVIDERS AND MOVE TO GCP WE ❤ LINTERS: FLAKE8, ISORT, BLACK AND MYPY BUILD VS BUY & VS UNMANAGED VS MANAGED
43. @christianbarra CONSOLIDATE PAY TECHNICAL DEBTS DEPRECATE ALL THE CLOUD PROVIDERS AND MOVE TO GCP WE ❤ LINTERS: FLAKE8, ISORT, BLACK AND MYPY BUILD VS BUY & VS UNMANAGED VS MANAGED
44. @christianbarra CONSOLIDATE PAY TECHNICAL DEBTS DEPRECATE ALL THE CLOUD PROVIDERS AND MOVE TO GCP WE ❤ LINTERS: FLAKE8, ISORT, BLACK AND MYPY BUILD VS BUY & VS UNMANAGED VS MANAGED
45. @christianbarra ARCHITECTURE MORE STRICT SERVICE SEPARATION MOVE TO A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE MOVE DATA INGESTION TO CLOUD FUNCTIONS
46. @christianbarra ARCHITECTURE MORE STRICT SERVICE SEPARATION MOVE TO A SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE MOVE DATA INGESTION TO CLOUD FUNCTIONS
48. @christianbarra CLOUD NATIVE INTRODUCE INFRASTRUCTURE AS CODE MIGRATE TO CONTAINERS (ALSO INSIDE HEROKU) EACH BUILD IS A DOCKER IMAGE INTRODUCE K8S
49. @christianbarra OBSERVABILITY START HAVING METRICS ADOPTING STRUCTLOG STACKDRIVER
50. @christianbarra OBSERVABILITY START HAVING METRICS ADOPTING STRUCTLOG STACKDRIVER
51. @christianbarra OBSERVABILITY START HAVING METRICS ADOPTING STRUCTLOG STACKDRIVER
52. Photo goes here FUTURE SOFTWARE COMPLETE MIGRATION TO K8S MOARRRR MICROSERVICES MORE FOCUS ON DATA
53. Photo goes here FUTURE SOFTWARE COMPLETE MIGRATION TO K8S MOARRRR MICROSERVICES MORE FOCUS ON DATA
54. Photo goes here EDGE COMPUTING WITH AI AUTOMATED FARM FUTURE SOFTWARE
55. Photo goes here EDGE COMPUTING WITH AI AUTOMATED FARM FUTURE SOFTWARE
56. Photo goes here EDGE COMPUTING WITH AI AUTOMATED FARM FUTURE SOFTWARE
57. @christianbarra THAT’S ALL THANKS QUESTIONS? WE ARE HIRING!!!
58. ALL MATERIALS ARE THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF INFARM – INDOOR URBAN FARMING GMBH AND ARE STRICLTLY CONFIDENTIAL WWW.INFARM.COM