Category: Scalable Systems
How we integrated IBM Watson services into a Telegram chat bot
Introduction IBMs artificial intelligence ‘Watson’ on the IBM Bluemix platform offers a wide range of cognitive services like image and audio analysis among other things. During our semester project in the lecture ‘Software Development for Cloud Computing’ we integrated useful Watson services into a Telegram chat bot to provide a convenient form of direct access…
How to build an Alexa Skill to get information about your timetable
Introduction With information technology today we can easily get any kind of information someone is interested in. Whether you want to know how the weather will be tomorrow or how to cook your favorite cake, you can find out almost anything today. But as a user it’s getting more important to gain information quickly, and…
Dapp Development on Ethereum
In this blog entry we take a look at how to develop a Dapp (‘decentralized app’) on the Ethereum blockchain network and enhance our development process through Gitlab’s continuous integration (CI) services. It is part of the examination for the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing”. First, all the necessary technologies to develop a Dapp…
Choosing the correct build system for your game project
In this blog entry we take a look at Travis CI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI and Buildbot and evaluate their benefits and downsides when trying to build a content heavy project with it (e.g. games).
Continuous Integration with Travis CI and Amazon Webservices
Introduction In the the course Software Engineering and Management and Interactive Media at Stuttgart Media University, we launched an interactive web application called Emoji College. www.emoji.college The following blog entry is a brief description of what is going on in this project. The main focus relies on the implementation of a continuous integration pipeline with…
Building an HdM Alexa Skill – Part 2
We present our own HdM Alexa Skill and share the experience we gained throughout this project. This time: Decisions, Developed Modules and Implementation.
Building a HdM Alexa Skill – Part 1
We present our own HdM Alexa Skill and share the experience we gained throughout this project.
Automate deployment with the Unreal Engine using the Unreal Automation Tool (UAT)
Documentation and Getting started guide for the Unreal Automation Tool (UAT) and Unreal Build Tool (UBT) included in the Unreal Engine 4.
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Lessons Learned – Part 8
Looking back at 4 months of intensive work on our project “SocialCloud” we gathered a lot of experiences and learned many things regarding teamwork, cloud infrastructure and about the difficulties of creating and designing a web application from scratch. Read this blogpost to be prepared for your next big project!
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – HumHub and the humming begins – Part 7
The background Locally organized voluntary groups, helping refugees manage their first steps in Germany, are often organized by mass-email with up to 50 recipients. So the huge amount of received emails which should be clarified ends up in a “answer all”-flood of every involved mailbox. Another realistic misbehaviour is that images are sent uncompressed as…
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