NPM Deploy Script for Alexa skills and AWS Lambda

As a follow up to Alexa Skills and AWS Lambda Aliasing wrote up a little NPM script to get some folks started. # Create a unique filename based upon the current time timestamp=`date +%s` echo $timestamp filename="myProject.$timestamp.zip" # We don't want to upload all the modules required to run our test harness' so prune out […]

Alexa Skills and AWS Lambda Aliasing

After the last post (Before Submitting Your Alexa Skill You Need to Do This One Important Thing), I had someone ask me to clarify things a bit regarding aliasing and the skills certification process. Specifically, could aliasing be used to give the best of both worlds. Namely: Protection of Production Code Ease of quick code […]

Before Submitting Your Alexa Skill You Need to Do This One Important Thing

Amazon has made it extremely easy getting started developing an Alexa skill. They offer some very mature SDKS, an active development team, free hosting, and some pretty decent documentation. The problem though, is that they made it really, really easy. Easy to make some development mistakes. Today lets address the most serious, in my opinion. […]