!!Con West 2019 - Daisy Tsang: Observability in the Kitchen: Improve Your Breadmaking Skills w/OSS!!

Presented at !!Con West 2019: http://bangbangcon.com/west I love to bake. A few months ago, I became interested in the art of making one’s own sourdough, a type of bread that, due to its fermentation process, is a much healthier alternative to bread that is readily available today. The sourdough breadmaking process is a fascinating combination of biology and physics, but working with natural starters can be difficult because they are very sensitive to variations in temperature and humidity. It is fun and useful to leverage inexpensive sensors, Raspberry Pis, and Prometheus (a monitoring system written in Go) to monitor the humidity and temperature of my sourdough cultures in order to gain insight into how these parameters affect the growth of each type of culture. The result? Analytical insights into an age-old breadmaking process via graphical reports and alerting rules. I am going to share my delicious and metric-filled breadmaking process, hopefully inspiring attendees to see how modern-day tooling written in Go can be used to enhance traditional fields.