Devnexus 2022 - Practical Cloud Pipelines - Danica Fine

This talk explores the process of creating a houseplant monitoring and alerting system using a Raspberry Pi and Apache Kafka, aimed at simplifying plant care by removing guesswork associated with over- and under-watering. The speaker discusses how soil moisture and temperature data are captured through sensors and streamed into Kafka for real-time processing. The session covers the use of ksqlDB and Kafka Connect to transform raw data into actionable insights, including sending real-time push alerts to mobile devices via Telegram. Attendees will gain practical knowledge to implement their own streaming data pipelines at home. Danica Fine, a Developer Advocate at Confluent who has extensive experience in backend engineering and event-driven systems, leads the discussion.