If you work in IoT, environmental sensing, or data systems, forest soil monitoring is one of the most technically interesting problems you'll encounter. The system you're trying to measure is extraordinarily complex, the variables are deeply interdependent, and the consequences of getting it wrong — or not monitoring at all — are significant. The Problem Space: What You're Actually Measuring Soil
Some time ago, I was building a chat application using AWS Websocket API gateway. Things were going smoothly. I created a WebSocket API Gateway, added $connect, $disconnect, and sendMessage/addGroup routes. From the frontend (React) side, everything was fire-and-forget. You send a message, and the onMessageHandler takes care of it 💪🏼 But then a new requirement of uploading files using S3 signed