Leveraging Docker to Quickly Setup an Object Detection API

Adam Costenbader API Development, Articles, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Docker, Tutorial 1 Comment

In this blog, we utilize the strengths of Docker containers to quickly spin up two separate containers that we can utilize for our software development needs – one running the DeepStack API software and the other running a utility to help us get started with the DeepStack API.

The best part is that once we are comfortable with our setup, we could quickly and easily stop and remove the DeepStackUI utility container to free up resources all while continuing to run the DeepStack API software without interruption.

Bridging the Gap: Azure App Insights to On-Prem Elastic Stack

Zach Gardner Articles, Azure, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, Tutorial 1 Comment

Recently, while working for a large healthcare client in New York, I ran into an interesting problem that had slim literature on how to solve it.

Our application is primarily on-prem, but it does leverage Azure for a few functions that are easier to solve in a cloud-native environment. We wanted to be able to monitor those functions using the same Elastic Stack that we use to monitor our on-prem application.

I was tasked with building a bridge between where our functionality logs to in Azure (App Insights), and getting that securely back into our Elasticsearch instance that powers our Elastic Stack.

This blog post will detail the solution I landed on. I hope it will be useful to others that need to solve a similar problem!

Spring Boot With GraphQL: What The Cool Kids Are Doing

Matt McCandless API Development, Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, GraphQL, Spring, Spring Boot 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 5 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.This article is going to introduce you to Spring Boot with GraphQL. Weโ€™ll walk through a simple beer app to show you what it …

Chatbot with Rasa

Chatting with Rasa: An Intro to Chatbots

Braden Niswonger Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Machine Learning, Python, Tutorial Leave a Comment

It seems like a lot of websites these days are equipped with a Chatbot. Itโ€™s used for customer service, simple Q/A, and more.

As chatbots have grown in popularity, so have the number of different frameworks that can be used to implement them.

In this blog, we will explore one of these frameworks, Rasa. First, Iโ€™ll cover some of the basics of chatbots. Then, Iโ€™ll explain how to write a simple Chatbot using Rasa, and weโ€™ll highlight some of its additional functionality as well.