Tom has over 15 years directing and architecting client/server technologies. Tom manages technical solutions and the technology team at thirteen23. When not in the office, Tom is out-and-about drumming for the band San Saba County.
Have you ever struggled with testing cloud services locally? Specifically, have you ever struggled with locally testing an API that uses API Gateway and Lambda, with the Serverless framework, on AWS? In this article, Tom Hudson shares a quick overview of how easy it is to quickly set up your project to test locally before deploying to AWS.
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Mad Libs is a game in which one player prompts others for a list of words to substitute for blanks in a story, before reading the story aloud. In this article, Tom Hudson will use this game to show you how to build your own action for Google Home. He’s detailed steps to build a custom mad lib action, and He’ll explain why certain steps are important and ultimately how they fit into the voice services world. After this exercise, you will better understand voice services and begin your path to programming actions for Google Home.
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