Interesting times we live. I've been enjoying the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), and the old mankind dream of automatic machines mowing our lawn, cleaning our houses and serving us beer. Scheduled next: Combine chatbot AI with robots and you'll get androids - robots that look, act, and feel like human (you've already guessed the obvious [...]
We'd like to enhance our apps with AI, but we have nobody who understands the neural nets, TensorFlows, Spark GPU clusters or the higher Σ-math involved. The good news is you don't need to be a math or AI magician to have AI infused in your apps. Instead you'll utilize either premade AI services, or standard [...]
Wanted to make a chatbot, but wondered if you were doing it right? This short blog shows an architecture reference model how most of today's bots seem to be internally organized. I've seen this architecture used on most text based customer service, FAQ and other one trick bots. The Architecture Making bots understand us or respond [...]
I'm often asked if node.js applications can be deployed and run on Azure. Short answer: Yes, you can. If you hadn't already noticed: Azure isn't only about Microsoft tech anymore. You can use Java, Javascript (node.js), PHP, Python and even C# to write your apps. Services include all the popular open source tools like maria/mysql, postgreSQL, [...]
