Posts Tagged “apigateway”

• Building a smart Chatbot with ClaudiaJS, Watson NLP and AWS

  08/30/16

  There are already many examples on how to quickly develop a chatbot with AWS Lambda and API Gateway (see here and here). However, most of them don’t go much further than replying to a few well defined commands. If you want to compete in the brave new bot world, your bot needs to be more than just a new command line interface. It needs to understand human language (NLP) and it needs to be able to have conversations (state, memory). This post shows how to integrate with Watson Conversation and AWS DynamoDB to give your bot natural language understanding and a memory.

• AWS API gateway as HTTP proxy with Lambda workaround

  03/14/16

  In addition to invoking Lambda functions and other AWS services such as S3, the API Gateway can also act as a proxy between the user and your http based service. For example if you already have a service based architecture you could integrate it with the gateway to maintain, monitor and secure a public API for your services. However, Amazon’s priorities seem to be on the former two integration methods, because when it comes to the details the HTTP proxy integration is quite painful at the moment. In this post I will highlight some of the pitfalls and provide workarounds.