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Exited to see these new SDKs for the Echo, using it daily it definitely gives you a feeling for the vast potential of the platform given 3rd party contribution.

Exited to see these new SDKs for the Echo, using it daily it definitely gives you a feeling for the vast potential of the platform given 3rd party contribution. Using AWS Lambda also makes development of Echo apps makes it extremely easy, it took me only about an hour to get a working prototype of a simple app working. I'm looking forward to attending the Boston amazon developer day this weekend to really dig deep into all the sdks and get some questions answered from the team.

slg 11y ago
AWS Lambda definitely seems like the way to go. It looks like hosting the service yourself gets complicated very quickly when you have to factor in things like authenticating the requests. [1] I'm also not sure how it would technically work, but I do wish there would be some way to run this locally. I would love to get more access to some of the hardware on my local network, but I would be hesitant to open the same up to the public internet. I guess Amazon is (smartly) targeting more consumer focused developers and not hobbyists working on their own pet projects. [1] - https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/docs/developing-an-alexa-skill-as-a-web-service https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-sk...