Open-source, serverless web-mapping:Case Study for the Agriculture Industry

Technology advances in cloud computing and open-source software are driving GIS developments and modernizations. At the same time, the agriculture industry is being inundated from a range of sources with data often containing a geospatial component. There is a need for modern GIS solutions to manage and visualize the growing data. Industry drivers mandate affordability and scalability. By updating the traditional web-mapping software architecture to a serverless cloud computing model, the need for infrastructure provisioning disappears. Designed to run on a cloud computing platform, this project was built using only readily-available cloud computing services and open-source code libraries. The application engine runs entirely on serverless functions. The new cloud-native, web-mapping application returns ownership of the application code to the users. This cost-effective, low maintenance, and reproducible approach benefits an industry in need of a spatial data insights solution.