This is the third part of an 8 part tutorial building an event-driven, serverless Slack Bot. You can start the series here In this section If we don’t have them already we need to set up accounts for Slack and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We also need to install the serverless.com …

This is the second part of an 8 part tutorial building an event-driven, serverless Slack Bot. You can start the series here Before we do anything let’s get some idea of the application we’re going to build. Our user ‘Cartman’ types “@pokebot abosol’s abilities” into a group channel on Slack…

This tutorial covers the whys and the hows of building a serverless, event-driven, Slackbot that answers questions about Pokémon characters. Now that’s a lot for just one tutorial so let me explain… What I love about coding is that there’s always so much to learn. What I hate about learning…

Now where do I put all that complexity ?…. This is a prequel to a series of articles and tutorials in which we share our experiences building bots and deploying them within serverless applications. It’s not hard to understand why anybody would want to build a bot but the role of serverless micro-services is a much less visible but…