How Software Can Feed the World

Explore how software and Python are revolutionizing urban farming in this 43-minute EuroPython Conference talk. Dive into Infarm's Farming as a Service (FaaS) model, which utilizes in-house farming at scale to address global food challenges. Learn about the company's IoT farms, infrastructure, and real-time farm management system that processes millions of observations. Discover the role of Python in supporting automated farms, the challenges faced while scaling to over 400 farms, and future plans for implementing edge machine learning. Gain insights into Infarm's four tech pillars, their journey with Python, and strategies for evolving their software and infrastructure across consolidation, architecture, cloud-native solutions, and observability.

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