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Microsoft Bot Framework Part 3: Connect to channels

September 1, 2021 – 12:00 pm

In the first two parts we built a bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework SDK and registered it in Azure. In this third and final part we’ll consume the bot using three of the available Bot Framework Channels: A simple chat component on a web page, SMS text and a fully custom Node.js application.

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Microsoft Bot Framework Part 2: Build a bot with Bot Framework SDK

August 7, 2021 – 12:49 pm

In the first part, we created an Azure Bot registration and connected to a demo bot application. In this part we’ll swap out the demo bot for one we’ve built using the Microsoft Bot Framework SDK.

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Microsoft Bot Framework Part 1: Create an Azure Bot Resource

July 27, 2021 – 8:33 pm

In this part, I’ll register and configure a bot with Microsoft Azure Bot Service. It might seem odd to start here rather than going straight into the application code. However, getting this step out of the way gives us something simple to play with that works end to end.

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Execute Around idiom in Java

November 28, 2020 – 5:33 pm

The Execute Around idiom is a pattern that allows you to wrap an action with some standard setup / tear down steps. Examples might include: Execute within a lock: acquire the lock, do the action, release the lock Resource handling: acquire the resource, do the action, close the resource Execute as a user: switch to read more »

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Reverse order a Stream in Java

October 23, 2020 – 5:11 pm

How do you reverse order a Stream in Java? There’s no obvious Stream.reverse() method. Is this an oversight in the API? Is there a workaround?

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Initialize a Windows container with an entrypoint script

May 26, 2020 – 8:14 pm

A popular Docker article describes a pattern to initialize stateful container data at runtime. The example uses a Shell script to run the initialization and then pass control to the container’s main command. We can use the same pattern to initialize a Docker Windows container.

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Deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine

March 15, 2020 – 3:41 pm

Previously we looked at building a Spring Cloud Data Flow on Kubernetes. As a follow up, we’re now looking at deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine. The great thing about Kubernetes you use exactly the same commands to manage a cluster on your laptop as on a server or cloud compute platform. Google has first class read more »

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Spring Cloud Data Flow on Kubernetes

February 29, 2020 – 12:02 pm

Spring Cloud Data Flow is a powerful tool for composing and deploying message driven data pipelines. It allows us to compose simple Spring Cloud Stream applications into complex processing pipelines. It also takes care of deploying these pipelines into Kubernetes or into Cloud Foundry. It’s powerful but has a lot of moving parts. It can read more »

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Secrets in Google App Engine

April 27, 2019 – 3:56 pm

Google App Engine makes it easy to deploy NodeJS applications. The GAE Standard Environment and SDK support NodeJS out of the box. This makes Google App Engine a great choice ahead of competitors such as Heroku, AWS or Microsoft Azure. Unfortunately though, there’s no support for managing secrets in Google App Engine. When I deployed Dog n Bone to GAE, I found this single shortcoming the main source of complexity.

There are however some workarounds. None of them is particularly nice though.

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SSH into a Docker Container

November 30, 2018 – 5:03 pm

Just sometimes, it’s useful to SSH into a Docker Container. While docker exec or docker attach are usually sufficient to run commands in a container, sometimes you specifically need SSH. For example, to connect directly from a remote machine or when an application needs to run commands on your container. Most Docker images don’t come with the SSHd service installed so it is not possible to SSH to them. This post demonstrates how to install and run the SSHd service to an existing image so that you can connect to it.

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