API Chain using IFTTT and AWS Services – Knattra 2018
We hosted a hackathon where the participants created an API chain using IFTTT, with an infrastructure based on some AWS services. Checkout the aftermovie! Knattra - The Hackathon Under the…
Speech recognition using Google Dialogflow
Following the recent release of Google Home in Swedish, I have been exploring how speech recognition in Swedish can be leveraged in various applications. In September 2016, Google acquired a…
Understanding Istio Ingress Gateway in Kubernetes
Traditionally, Kubernetes has used an Ingress controller to handle the traffic that enters the cluster from the outside. When using Istio, this is no longer the case. Istio has replaced…
Face recognition with AWS and Android Things
This blog post is part 2 in our series about Wallace, our four wheeled, Android Things on an RPi3 powered company house robot. You can find the first part of…
AWS Elasticsearch JavaScript Client
I have spent some time working with the AWS Elasticsearch Service lately. Regrettably, I found the threshold before being productive was higher than I anticipated. One of my obstacles was…
DIY “Face ID” door lock using AWS Rekognition
DIY "Face ID" I recently started to learn and explore the services at AWS, and the face recognition service seemed particularly interesting. In this post I want to share with…
AWS Glue Dev Endpoint Deleter
Development of AWS Glue scripts can potentially add unnecessary expenses to your invoice if you are not careful. This blog post shows one way to avoid some of the cost…
AWS CLI MFA
AWS CLI MFA, how about that for title? It translates to Amazon Web Services Command Line Interface Multi Factor Authentication when all acronyms are spelled out. If you have enabled…
Microsoft Build 2017 – Day 1 – Chat bots and AI
First day of build is now over. One thing is for sure, it sure was a lot more focused than previous years. If, Chat-bots, IoT, machine learning and cloud catches…
Introduction to Claudia.js
Serverless architecture and serverless applications are rapidly gaining momentum. In a couple of previous blog posts I have showed simple examples of how RESTful APIs can be deployed using AWS…
Introduction to Swagger for CloudFormation and API Gateway
When I was writing my previous blog post about Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway, I noticed that CloudFormation also supports Swagger for API Gateway configuration. Curious about what such…
Continuous Deployment of AWS Lambda behind API Gateway
In two previous blog posts I started by introducing scripts for Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda and then I continued to experiment with Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway. This…
Introduction to CloudFormation for API Gateway
AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda are part of the Serverless Architecture paradigm shift. The learning curve is steep and for this reason Amazon has a step-by-step tutorial on how…
Continuous Deployment on AWS Lambda
The quickest way of pushing every code change to production is to use automation, but to do that in a safe and sustainable way also requires test automation. The goal…
Route53 configuration for Elastic Beanstalk
The AWS documentation is extensive, yet I find it both incomprehensible and overwhelming from time to time. Recently, I struggled to configure a HostedZoneId in a Route53 AliasTarget targeting an…