Teams had taken four runs down the 1,450 meter (almost 1 mile) long track, made of reinforced concrete, covered in ice. Still, their combined times were separated by less than a blink of an eye. The ice on the track varied, the colder and harder, the faster the sleds would go. A sled’s metal blades […]
Deploying Python AWS Lambda Functions
When it comes to deploying lambda function into AWS, I have been using mostly Java for the implementation language and runtime. However, using Python has some advantages, especially if the code does not require parallel threads. E.g., the deployment package is usually a lot smaller and waking the lambda function, after it hasn’t been used […]
Alicia vs Alexa
Democratizing the creation of delightful audible content Have you ever heard an interview with Alicia Keys? She spent most of her childhood in Hell’s Kitchen, one of New York City’s toughest neighborhoods. Experiencing how much emotion she’s putting into each word and her very deliberate expressive pronunciation means you cannot just casually listen but have to […]
Even or Odd – Lambda Edition
Very recently, I showed you one of the probably easiest ways, to host your very own Java-based web-service. Remember, we added providedCompile group: ‘javax.servlet’, name: ‘javax.servlet-api’, version: ‘4.0.1’ to the build.gradle file, implemented a WebServlet, and finally dropped a war file into Tomcat’s webapps directory. I know, you’ll have a hard time finding paying customers […]
Even or Odd
This is a quick demo, showing how to create a Java web-service in just a few minutes. I’m assuming you have Java and Tomcat already installed on you computer and use IntelliJ as your IDE, and gradle as your build-automation system. The simple task is to create a web-service that can answer if a provided […]