NBC, you look like a big company behind a big talent show. But have you ever thought about your security on your voting endpoints? 🤔 I care about API security and audited your API endpoints… Basically you can vote how often you want and you can — theoretically — get…

After setting up a VPC for an AWS Lambda function, your function will lose access to the internet because network interfaces created by Lambda only have private IP addresses, you will not be able to use an IGW to gain internet access. — AWS I had some troubles to enable…

In this post I will explain to you why I have to track every outgoing HTTP(s) request to an external source and how I solved it. First of all let me introduce our 🐳Swelly 🤖Chatbot for Messenger, Kik and Telegram. Our Bot helps people to make better decisions and helps…

Update 2017–04–17: Facebook finally has an API for that 🎉 https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/connecting-accounts — In my last blog post I wrote about our first chatbot and the challenge to identify users. We get a page-scoped user-id from Messenger, so we can’t match existing users with their app-scoped user-id, even though we are using the same FB App for Facebook Login and Messenger Bot Integration.

At 🐳Swell we help people make better decisions by collecting their friends opinions. We have an iOS App for that in the AppStore. …

Hello and welcome to my new blog about programming (NodeJS), bots, cloud computing, backends, software concepts, devOps, … So in general I want to share my tech experience from the last couple of years. You know there are a lot of problems in the world you can solve with software…