Dec 21, 2019My blog movedTo my followers and others who end up here due to my past blog posts: At the end of 2019, I moved to my own blog at www.mikenikles.com. Check out the architecture of my new blog. For updates, please follow me on Twitter. 👋1 min read1 min read
Dec 26, 2018How to monitor a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat)Visit http://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. Introduction This post is part of a series where you can learn how to develop, monitor (and later debug and profile) a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat). Please refer to the other posts linked below for context. Intro & architecture Process incoming chat messages …Google Cloud Platform4 min readGoogle Cloud Platform4 min read
Dec 26, 2018How to develop a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat): find reminders & notify usersVisit http://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. Introduction This post is part of a series where you can learn how to develop, monitor (and later debug and profile) a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat). Please refer to the other posts linked below for context. Intro & architecture Process incoming chat messages …Chatbots7 min readChatbots7 min read
Dec 26, 2018How to develop a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat) — Send messages to usersVisit http://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. Introduction This post is part of a series where you can learn how to develop, monitor (and later debug and profile) a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat). Please refer to the other posts linked below for context. Intro & architecture Process incoming chat messages …Google Cloud Platform4 min readGoogle Cloud Platform4 min read
Dec 26, 2018How to develop a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat) — Process incoming chat messagesVisit http://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. Introduction This post is part of a series where you can learn how to develop, monitor (and later debug and profile) a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat). Please refer to the other posts linked below for context. Intro & architecture Process incoming chat messages…Google Cloud Platform12 min readGoogle Cloud Platform12 min read
Dec 26, 2018How to develop a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat) — Intro & ArchitectureAnd do so on a Pixelbook, entirely in the cloud — Visit http://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. Introduction This post is part of a series where you can learn how to develop, monitor (and later debug and profile) a serverless chatbot (for Hangouts Chat). Please refer to the other posts linked below for context. Intro & architecture (this post) Process incoming…Google Cloud Platform5 min readGoogle Cloud Platform5 min read
Aug 16, 2018I’m joining GoogleA (life) story of how I got here — Visit https://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. I’m excited to share that I’m joining Google, more specifically the Google Cloud team to work as a Customer Engineer in London 🇬🇧. It all started over two decades ago… 😴 tl;dr: No worries, I won’t force anyone to read my life story…Cloud Computing5 min readCloud Computing5 min read
Jul 8, 2018Don’t be the bad cop in pull request reviews — Let software do that jobAnd try to celebrate achievements! — Visit http://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. When was the last time you reviewed a pull request and reminded the author to add a link to your bug tracking system? How about adding a missing label? Maybe you found an open PR that had no reviewer / assignee set. I’ve…Github6 min readGithub6 min read
May 17, 2018Migrating to the Dialogflow API v2Visit https://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. On April 17, 2018 version 2 of the Dialogflow API was made generally available. It marked the end of a beta phase that started back in November 2017. Our API V2 now serves as the default API for all new Dialogflow agents, and…Java Script4 min readJava Script4 min read
May 7, 2018CircleCI Performance Difference Between Cache and WorkspacePersist ~ 70% faster; restore ~ 80% faster, your mileage may vary — Visit https://www.mikenikles.com for my latest blog posts. A few days ago, Andrew Stiegmann commented on a blog post of mine where I shared how we automate our release process with CircleCI. Andrew’s comment can be summarized with “Hey, is there any reason you use CircleCI cache instead of a workspace?” …Java Script4 min readJava Script4 min read
