The author of the article is Mark Herring and it was published on April 13, 2017. The article discusses a creative way to enhance one's BBQ experience by integrating technology into the process. A developer named Brian Ketelsen has successfully connected a Raspberry Pi to a fan that optimally cooks meat using Go programming language, Gobot.io, and InfluxDB for data storage. This setup enables predictive analysis via machine learning to determine optimal tenderness of meat. The article also mentions a webinar on monitoring weather stations with Raspberry Pi and InfluxDB.