Practical Pipelines - A Houseplant Soil Alerting System with ksqlDB

Explore the process of building a houseplant monitoring and alerting system using a Raspberry Pi and Apache Kafka in this 53-minute conference talk from NDC Melbourne. Learn how to capture moisture and temperature readings from soil sensors and stream them into Kafka. Discover how to use stream processing to transform data, create summary views of current plant states, and drive real-time push alerts to your phone through Telegram. Gain insights into data ingestion techniques and explore tools like ksqlDB and Kafka Connect for transforming raw data into useful information. By the end of this talk, acquire the knowledge needed to start building practical streaming pipelines in your own home, combining technology with plant care to take the guesswork out of houseplant maintenance.