How quickly do you get from the business coming to you with “we need a data warehouse” to delivering that warehouse? If you’ve sat through any Biml talk, you’ve undoubtedly heard stories of thousands of staging packages being generated per hour. You may have even heard tales of source systems being analyzed in hours, rather than…
Read More Data Warehouse EfficiencyWhen you build an Alexa skill you’ve got two rich sources of information describing how users are interacting with your skill. The first is the data in the Alexa Skills Kit request object. The request object is the JSON representation of what you said to your Alexa device. Alexa Voice Service(AVS) takes your spoken words…
Read More Alexa Telemetry DataIn putting together the demo for this blog, I found there is an issue when saving data to the Alexa Session data. I can’t reliably write to this collection in the request/response JSON. Without this ability, I’d have to write a session manager myself. Honestly, I don’t have time for that. I’ve reached out to…
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