What if every plant in your house had its own persistent workflow, one that survived crashes, remembered its history, and knew when to phone a friend?
In this webinar, we'll walk through a working plant health monitoring system built on Temporal's entity workflow pattern. Each plant is a long-running workflow: it looks up care ranges from a botanical database, polls Zigbee sensors in Home Assistant hourly, sends alerts when readings go out of range, and, when the plant species is too obscure for the database, falls back to GPT-4o to generate care recommendations on the fly.
That last part is the key insight: deterministic code handles the polling loop, the state machine, the alerting. AI handles the gaps with the fuzzy knowledge problems that rules can't answer. The boundary between the two is clean, auditable, and durable.
The plant is real but the patterns apply everywhere: patient monitoring, supply chain anomaly detection, and any long-running business process that occasionally needs to ask a smarter question.
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Staff Solutions Architect
Temporal Technologies
Laine Smith is a Staff Solutions Architect at Temporal, where she helps startups and other small businesses design and implement applications with Temporal. With nearly 20 years in software engineering and architecture, Laine has worn many hats—developer, architect, DevOps engineer, Director of Platform Engineering, and most everything in between.
She loves helping technical people deliver business value as painlessly as possible. Outside of work, you'll find her tinkering with an increasing number of home lab shenanigans, 3D printing, and learning how to keep plants alive.
Senior Staff Solutions Architect
Temporal Technologies
Josh Smith is a Senior Staff Solutions Architect at Temporal, where he helps enterprises such as financial services, telecom, and ecommerce teams design and develop resilient, reliable systems. He began his career as a C developer and has held roles ranging from development team lead to chief architect, with deep experience in infrastructure and developer operations.
Prior to Temporal, Josh brought his expertise to companies like S&P Global and Red Hat. His favorite part of the job is helping developers succeed with Temporal and build software they’re proud of.
