One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

I wonder what their stack is. I can't readily determine that, which might just be a function of working too hard today. I don't have time to search for the info. (I was specifically wondering if they use Hadoop.)

Re: One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

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Post by wooster » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 11:13 PM UTC

This number ("one in three") is really ambiguous[0], as I haven't seen them state what they consider a farm to be. It could be the Ag Census data (~2.2 million farms), or along some subset (say non-family farms at ~90 thousand), or some farm type (I believe I've previously seen them say "row crop farms").

I'm sure it seems like an impressive stat to throw out there, but it's a lot like saying they're offering a million shares of options to new employees; without the total number of shares we don't know what that means.

[0] http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/ag101/demographics.html

Re: One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

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Post by chrislloyd » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 11:16 PM UTC

Mz wrote: post #5

I wonder what their stack is. I can't readily determine that, which might just be a function of working too hard today. I don't have time to search for the info. (I was specifically wondering if they use Hadoop.)

They're big fans of Clojure (and are sponsoring clojure/conj).

Re: One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

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Post by rev_bird » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 11:17 PM UTC

Mz wrote: post #5

I wonder what their stack is. I can't readily determine that, which might just be a function of working too hard today. I don't have time to search for the info. (I was specifically wondering if they use Hadoop.)

I can't remember seeing them looking for anything other than Postgres, which seems less like "big data" than... regular data. Maybe they don't put their heavy duty stuff in job listings?

Re: One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

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Post by hooo » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 11:18 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #3

It's worth noting that FarmLogs is (YC S12).

What makes that worth noting?

Re: One in Three Farms Is Using FarmLogs

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Post by Mz » Tue, Sep 22, 2015, 11:21 PM UTC

rev_bird wrote: post #8

Mz wrote: post #5

I wonder what their stack is. I can't readily determine that, which might just be a function of working too hard today. I don't have time to search for the info. (I was specifically wondering if they use Hadoop.)

I can't remember seeing them looking for anything other than Postgres, which seems less like "big data" than... regular data. Maybe they don't put their heavy duty stuff in job listings?

Thanks.

I did see a job listing that noted "familiarity with stuff like Hadoop" (paraphrasing). So it seemed to cast doubt on them using Hadoop, but it neither served to confirm nor deny.