Category: cloud
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Location-based services and countries on AWS
A few weeks ago I covered my experience and challenges working with geolocation technologies for Funambol and RaceBase World, as the (accidental) political software developer. How does it work using AWS services? As the focus of this blog is AWS technologies, what about Amazon and their location-based services? Any way to keep those geolocation issues…
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Finding marathon cheats using Amazon Rekognition
In the last few weeks many articles have been published about the problem of cheating in the biggest running events, for example Beijing marathon to use facial recognition in cheating crackdown. There is apparently even a former marathoner and business analyst, Derek Murphy, who devotes his time to catch the cheats, as the BBC recently…
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The (accidental) political software developer
As a software developer, the chance to discuss politics is high at the coffee machine or after a couple of beers in the evening but not while writing code. Somehow the last few weeks proved me wrong, I managed to discuss controversial borders and disputed countries in more than one occasion. And all thanks to…
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Build a Alexa skill in (about) one hour
Since a few weeks ago the Amazon Echo Dot is finally available in Germany, the first not English speaking market. Time for me to test the cloud-based virtual assistant and see if it is really possible to build a trivia skill in under an hour as Amazon claims. And hopefully find out a bit more…
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Base performance and EC2 T2 instances
Almost three years ago AWS launched the now very popular T2 instances, EC2 servers with burstable performance. As Jeff Barr wrote in 2014: Even though the speedometer in my car maxes out at 150 MPH, I rarely drive at that speed (and the top end may be more optimistic than realistic), but it is certainly…
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A wish list for the Amazon Elastic Transcoder
1 – Real-time video encoding There is no real-time video encoding with the Amazon Elastic Transcoder. How long does it take to transcode a job? It depends, usually not too long but if you need real-time or almost real-time encoding you need to look somewhere else or wait and hope they will add the feature…
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IoT Hackathon – AWS & Funambol
Funambol is proudly hosting the very first Italian Amazon Web Services Hackathon. The event is taking place in Pavia on April 5th and the topic will be IoT. It will be a one day hackathon starting with a keynote and presentation of AWS IoT services by Amazon followed by projects using Rasberry devices. You can…