Over at FORTYEIGHT we build the transparency as a service (TaaS) platform of the future. The pandemic and the new remote work life has not just impacted us but millions of people worldwide. So we decided to build a product leveraging our TaaS platform in order to help people connect more easily during these times, strengthen team communication and positively impact teams. Dawn.Chat gives users the ability to speak to each other during a friendly wakeup call

The first chatbot can be dated back to 1966 when ELIZA was created at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Since then chatbots have developed significantly. Users interact via text or text-to-speech, and implementations range from detecting input using regular expressions and returning scripted responses to fully conversational AI featuring natural language processing, think Google Assistant or Amazon Alexa.

Even in small- to medium-sized projects you’ll want to have an infrastructure setup to run multiple instances, or environments of your software / system. This article describes two ways of realizing this using Terraform, the advantages and disadvantages of the approaches and offers sample code to get you started.

If you like working with data you’re probably very familiar with Python and you know about the power of visualizations to make the data accessible to your readers.

However Python is not the best tool for visualizations. Enter Leaflet, an open-source JavaScript library which creates mobile-friendly maps, has a small footprint, comes with a lot of map layers out of the box and has several more amazing features.