Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 5
Nov 10, 2017 · 4 min read
In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the final post in my series of blogs on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. Till now we were building our bot and adding features to it. In this article, we will be publishing our bot and later chat with our bot on Skype.
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Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 4
Oct 22, 2017 · 10 min read
In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the fourth post in my blog series on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. In this article, we will see how we can configure LUIS to bring Natural Language Processing capabilities to our application. LUIS uses Intents, Entities, and Utterances to build its NLP models.
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Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 3
Sep 14, 2017 · 8 min read
In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the third post in my blog series on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. In the last post, we saw how we could use Dialogs and State to carry out a meaningful conversation with the user. However, we also saw that interacting with the user using Dialogs involves a lot of complexity.
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Now Available: Microservices with Azure
Jul 07, 2017 · 1 min read
It has been months since my friend Namit and I have been working on bringing to life a comprehensive book on Microservices applications specifically targeted for deployment in the cloud. We realized how the community is too keen to get started with Microservices, but there is so little guidance available on the subject. We studied several real-world implementations and documented the learnings as a set of patterns that help solve some of the most common challenges architects face while designing Microservices applications.
Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 2
May 19, 2017 · 9 min read
In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot Welcome to the second post in my blog series on Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework. In today’s post, we will learn how we can build a stateful bot that can carry out a meaningful conversation with the user. We will also find out how Dialogs can add reusability to our bots.
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Building Bots with The Microsoft Bot Framework - Part 1
May 05, 2017 · 6 min read
In this series Introduction Adding Dialogs and State to your bot Using Form Flow Adding intelligence to your bot using LUIS Publishing your bot I decided to spend some time learning the Microsoft Bot Framework. I am going to write a series of blog posts to share with you what I learn so that we can go through this learning exercise together. This is the first post in the series with a few more to go.
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Deploying Guest Executables to Azure Service Fabric
Mar 09, 2017 · 7 min read
One of my most popular blog posts on this site is Hands-on with Azure Service Fabric Reliable Services. Referring to the blog post, many readers asked me about guidance to deploy various types of applications as Guest Executables on Service Fabric. In this post, I will try to answer most of those questions by demonstrating the process in a simple manner. The Application We previously built a simple node.js application that uses Azure SQL Database as data store.
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Use ElasticSearch and Kibana to Monitor Your Service Fabric Application Logs
Dec 06, 2016 · 8 min read
How good is your logging provider’s search experience? Now, you can leverage the same set of services that power search on Facebook, eBay and tons of other websites to index and query the logs of your Service Fabric applications. Let’s discuss how you can integrate ElasticSearch with your Service Fabric application to index and query the diagnostic logs generated by your application. Before we set out to discuss ElasticSearch and Service Fabric integration, I would like to call out that you can build an ElasticSearch listener for your WebApps as well (even for those that are built with .
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Hands-on with Azure Service Fabric Reliable Services
Nov 01, 2016 · 12 min read
November 1, 2016: Thank you, community. This post was first written in April, 2016 and several parts of the code sample were getting obsolete. The code sample of this post has now been updated to use ASP.Net Core and Service Fabric SDK 2.3. I have revised the content of this blog post to accommodate the changes. Azure Service Fabric, the next generation PaaS from Microsoft, is a platform to publish and manage microservices.
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Bring Your Own Protocol (BYOP) to Your Azure Service Fabric Applications
Oct 25, 2016 · 12 min read
Microsoft Azure Service Fabric: There are several reasons to switch to this brand new platform for building distributed systems. For one, Service Fabric can host itself literally anywhere: on your laptop, in your data center, in some else’s data center, on Windows, on Linux… If you are still hugging Cloud Services (that thing with web roles and worker roles), you better mend your acts early, it is getting phased out and will become obsolete soon.
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