Currently, the bot we've made in the previous post (first, second) doesn't use a database. So we are currently cheating by passing channel id and timestamp that we need to for the modal to work as fields in the modal. Instead of doing that, we can use a Database in AWS. Which Database AWS has... Continue Reading →
Slack Smart Bot: Getting Modal working with Lambda
Modal in Slack are pop up window that appear in Slack where you can ask a user specific questions to get information that your app can use. Just to start off with For a test workflow to see if I can get this to work correctly will look like this The user will post in... Continue Reading →
Debugging Slack Smart bot in CloudWatch Logs
Last post i started a Smart Slack bot that use AWS Lambda. What happens though if something break in the lambda function how do find out? Every time a Lambda function run in AWS, the logs are automatically stored in CloudWatch Log You can see these logs in your Lambda function by click on Monitor... Continue Reading →
Slack Smart Bot: Connecting AWS lambda with Slack Events
New project time. Today i'm our lead developer for our Ansible collection at work, and we do all our support today in Slack. I want to automate some of this support to help resolve issues quickly for users and free up more time for the dev team to develop. The plan is to make a... Continue Reading →