In a previous article, I wrote about my experiences developing my first Alexa skill. I will update you on the status of my skill submission. Following submission, the Amazon Alexa skills team failed my skill because it was missing a background image for the Amazon Alexa display. This was my own...
AWS S3 has a great, but little known functionality: You can request metadata about the content of the bucket in XML. This makes it a great storage space for all kinds of batch oriented applications. No need for a self-written API. Requesting the metadata is easy, it's just a GET request to the...
Amazon AWS has a nice command line client for their public cloud. This client is very well suited for automating tasks in many IaaS DevOps scenarios. However, it can also be used by a person. The scenarios to do so might be different than for automation, though. A common scenario for looking into...