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Last year, I created the Amazon Alexa Skill for Cork Hounds which takes a City/State, and responds with the nearest fully dog friendly vineyard. When I first started that project, I re-read Google's Geocoding API terms of service, and confirmed that without a Business/Enterprise account we

I recently migrated our four containerized microservices from self managed Docker to AWS ECS. We are adding a lot more vineyards (the addition of California more than doubles the number of vineyards we currently have in our database, and a slew of other states aren't too far behind)

This post is a companion blog to a recent post on Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap that I published in January. We recently released our Mobile Application on the Apple App Store. To supply the mobile application with a performant, scalable and elastic backend, I decided to

This blog has been a long time coming, as I've been working on the Cork Hounds iOS Mobile Application for the better part of 2017. I decided to use Phonegap for several reasons: * Shortened learning curve using basic Javascript, CSS3, Html5 knowledge * Reuse of existing website code and

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to look into writing an Amazon Alexa Skill using the Java SDK. Alexa was an early entrant into the voice service market, allowing users to interact with the Amazon Marketplace with only their voice, as well as control smart devices to automate your