Automating the Nespresso Coffee Machine part 2
In this part I explain how to hook up api.ai agent with particle using hook.io as middleware. Hook.io will get the invocation call from api.ai and acts based on the action and action parameters by...
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Business support systems (BSS) is one of the main pillars of any telecom it has been around and evolving for a while now and we are at the point where is the next horizon is just around the corner. BSS...
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TOGAF divides enterprise architecture into 4 domains: Business, Data, Application and Technology. The most illusive to define being the business architecture domain, the business architect role is...
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I’ve had this challenge for which the only solution was building an nodejs webhook adapter for my smtp server. Using webhooks and the following script I was able to enable API access for my email...
View ArticleMicroCule, A Love Story
Often I find myself in a situation that requires a quick and dirty custom micro-service to support one Proof-Of-Concept or another, with a wide array of NPM available module I usually resort to nodejs...
View ArticleThe Indian Aadhaar Biometric Miracle
I belong to a generation that has forsaken the pen for a keyboard and hence the skills required to maintain a static signature is long gone. Personally I’ve never trusted identity verification by...
View ArticleDesign or Develop
A while ago I was explaining the architecture of a solution I have developed when he made a remark about how my solution was based on the integration of off the shelf Solutions (OTS) rather than a...
View ArticleBest Practices Development
In some psychological experiment the test subjects were placed in a room with a light bulb and a console full of keys, buttons and levers. The test subjects were told that the light bulb would blink...
View ArticleDesign Thinking – Formalizing Innovation
Innovation has never been as important as it is now, with a market full of asymmetrical competitors and disrupters none innovative enterprises face extinction. innovation has become too important to be...
View ArticleProtected: The Anatomy of a Solution Architecture Document
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View ArticleAWS Rekognition + OpenCV
Here is how you can use OpenCV with AWS rekognition Enable your configured aws account on rekognition and S3 Create a rekognition collection this will be the collection of faces the camera stream is...
View ArticleProvision a free Ubuntu Machine On OCI – How To
Oracle has announced its free tier in the last Oracle Open World (https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/) and unlike other cloud providers Oracle free is free forever. A truly transformative offering that...
View ArticleSet up a File Transfer Service (Own Cloud) on OCI
Often you need to send private files securely or allow people to share files in an encrypted private method, there are many services available that just do that weTransfer, DropBox and even onionShare...
View ArticleArabic Movies Zoom Backgrounds
There are plenty of International movies Zoom virtual backgrounds available online however when it comes to Egyptian movies there aren’t that many so for the fun of it I decided to create some of my...
View ArticleCKAD Exam Preparation Guide
CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer) is one of the more recent and also more challenging certificates available in the market, Having just managed to pass it with a score of 90% I’m...
View ArticleThe Menu – an Enterprise Architect’s View
I saw Mark Mylod’s movie “The Menu” last week, a rich movie that has many layers satirizing the art scene and the different personas that practically ruin art in the current age we are living in. Each...
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