JS Freakin' Everywhere: A Chatbot Powered by AWS+NodeJS

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1. JS Freakin’ Everywhere A Chatbot Powered by AWS+NodeJS

2. Me, a year ago. Ecstatic Art Driftwood Flea Market Buddhist

   Retreat 100% NO JS

3. Along came a startup founder... We made a bot! It

   helps people! Help us build it!

4. Who sat down beside me... And it has a punny

   name!!

5. And enticed Miss Pammy to code And we’re building it

   all in something called “NodeJS”!

6. And we’re off to the races! From 0 to Scalable

   in 5 weeks. AWS Lambda AWS DynamodB AWS Beanstalk
7. None

8. Why Lambda?

9. SysOpsJS AWS Lambda Log Processor Cloudwatch BigQuery AWS Lambda Cloudwatch

   SlackBot Cloudwatch Slack deploy.sh Upload Notify Checks

10. BUT WHAT ABOUT NLP?? 99% buttons

11. We still have NLP tho...

12. NLP in JavaScript..ish! Python Classifier Training JavaScript Online Classifier svm

    intercepts svm weights tfidf scores mood matches

13. That takes time! Fine, we need to take time! How

    are you feeling? I’m excited about tonight Oh, that’s great to hear! • • • NLP! 500ms Twiddle thumbs

14. Our “CMS” We need a way to collaboratively write content

    for Woebot! And we want to A/B content! And we want to write variants! And lesson queueing! And conditional content based on variables! Also, we need it tomorrow!

15. Google Spreadsheets to the rescue!

16. Spreadsheets + JS = So Happy Together! Google Apps Script

    Linter Google Apps Script JSON Exporter Google Apps Script Github Client New commit: content.json

17. Duh, we have a website Beanstalk

18. COMING SOON! Mobile…. AND HIPAA! Hip-hip-hooray!

19. What’s great about JS on AWS? Scalable! Fast to develop!

    Rich ecosystem! Easy to use across the FULL stack! Not so great tho? Lack of NLP libs! Slow computation! Less encryption libs!