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Send Images and Files via #whatsapp Using #ruby
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With the #twilio API for WhatsApp we can send messages to WhatsApp numbers. Those messages can be plain text or include files like images, audio and even PDFs up to 5MB. Let’s see how to do so using Ruby.Things you’ll needIf you want to code along with this post, you’ll need a few things:A Twilio account (sign up for a free account now)Ruby and Bundler installedThe WhatsApp Sandbox Channel installed (learn how to activate your WhatsApp sandbox)Got all that? Let’s get coding then!Create a new directory for your project and use Bundler to initialise a new Gemfile:mkdir whatsapp-messagescd whatsapp-messagesbundle initOpen up the new Gemfile and add the twilio-ruby gem:# frozen_string_literal: truesource "▻https://rubygems.org"gem "twilio-ruby"Install the gem by running bundle (...)

#whatsapp-using-ruby #whatsapp-and-ruby

Go Celebrity Spotting made easy with the #twilio API for #whatsapp, #aws #rekognition and #ruby
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Did you know you can send and receive media using the Twilio API for WhatsApp? When I found out I wanted to make something fun with it, so why not combine it with AWS Rekognition to work out if I look like any celebrities?By the end of this post, you’ll know how to build an app that lets you send an image to a WhatsApp number, download the image, analyse the image with the AWS Rekognition API and respond to say whether there are any celebrities in the picture.What you’ll needTo build this application you’ll need a few things:A Twilio account, sign up for a free one hereAn AWS accountRuby and Bundler installedngrok to help us test our webhooksGot all that? Let’s get started then.Application basicsWhen Twilio receives a WhatsApp message it will send an HTTP request, a webhook, to a URL we provide. (...)

#security in your OpenAPI Specification
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Learn how OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0 can promote and emphasis #api Security as a first-class concern during the design phase of API development.It is no longer a mystery, APIs are eating the world. There are a lot of companies today that are offering their APIs as the primary medium to interact with a system, with the User Interface merely as a byproduct, or, in any case, not the primary product being sold. Companies such as Stripe and Twilio led the vanguard of this movement in 2012.Given this shift (which, by the way, is still happening), APIs have started to get more and more complicated, and so the API development process needed to evolve as well. APIs have become a product, therefore all the typical team members and methodologies have been employed to make that product successful.The (...)

#open-api #programming #web-development

Forward #fax to #email with #sendgrid and Node.js
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Forward Fax to Email with SendGrid and Node.jsIt’s 2019 and you need to receive a fax. What do you do? You could buy a fax machine, hook it up to a phone line and hand out your number. But it’s 2019 not 1979, we’re living in the future, so let’s grab Node.js, pick a couple of APIs and turn that fax into an email instead.You’re going to need a #twilio account, a SendGrid account and this noise to remind you what you’re missing out on as you build your very own fax-to-email converter.Receiving a faxRather than bulky machinery we’re going to use a Twilio number to receive our incoming faxes. You’re going to need a Twilio number that supports fax to build this app, so log in to your Twilio account. You can buy a new number or you may already have one, just look for this icon to show that it can (...)

#nodejs

Five ways to gain #serverless #observability
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In this post, I’m covering five approaches for gaining observability in serverless (FaaS based) systems. I hope that it can help developers, system architects, and DevOps engineers make the serverless journey successful, less frustrating, and of course — enjoyable.Serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) have been around for about three years now. It started with AWS Lambda, and quickly expanded into similar services provided by the leading cloud vendors — Microsoft, Google, IBM, and others. However, as people started using it, serverless became much more than just FaaS. Serverless systems today involve functions, containers, managed services provided by the cloud vendor (e.g., message queues, DBs, storage), and a vast variety of SaaS APIs (e.g., Auth0, Twilio, Stripe), all interacting (...)

#distributed-systems #aws-lambda #monitoring