Whenever I got a new laptop or was (re-)installing macOS from scratch, a Java JDK, IntelliJ IDEA, and Tomcat, the “pure Java” HTTP web server environment, were always among the 1st things I installed. How times have changed. Now it’s Docker, Python3, PyCharm, and AWS and SAM CLIs that go on first. I still do […]
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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 […]
A Universal Voice Browser
On September 25, Amazon released 80 new devices, some of which can be found here. Even for a company of its size, that is an impressive number and an even more impressive line-up. However, I think something much more profound happened a day earlier. On Tuesday, September 24, 2019, at 11:04 AM EDT, in a […]