Pest Progress – Week #5

Controlling PD in Texas and Missouri - Wines Vines Analytics
Grapevines affected by Pierce’s Disease. (credit: https://winesvinesanalytics.com/features/article/138044/Controlling-PD-in-Texas-and-Missouri)

This week, Grape Expectations made more progress with all of the different facets of the project, and also learned about leadership in engineering.

In project progress, the CS team has made great leaps in the microservice work. They set up a weekly meeting with one of Terraview’s software engineers to work in the development environment and streamline the microservice integration. Additionally, the team has successfully Dockerized the code needed for the microservice, so it simply needs to be combined with Terraview’s systems in order to be complete. On the pest research side, significant strides have been made in the research that supports the continued development of a pest threat system in addition to the pre-existing wildfire, smoke, and drought threat systems. The main pests and diseases that will be studied are Pierce’s Disease (caused by Glassy-Winged Sharpshooters) and Powdery Mildew.

In class, the team listened to other teams’ “Design for X” presentations, and was able to gain a greater understanding of the Design for X system. Additionally, there was a guest speaker who taught about the importance of leadership in engineering.

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