Create a multi-region Amazon Lex bot with Amazon Connect for high availability

Favorite AWS customers rely on Amazon Lex bots to power their Amazon Connect self service conversational experiences on telephone and other channels. With Amazon Lex, callers (or customers, in Amazon Connect terminology) can get their questions conveniently answered regardless of agent availability. What architecture patterns can you use to make a bot resilient

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 31, 2020

KM is not an oxymoron

Favorite “Knowledge Management” is not an oxymoron, the term is merely being read the wrong way round. One primary argument against the term “Knowledge Management” is that knowledge cannot be managed. Knowledge is an intangible, is personal and context specific, and is not an object in it’s own right, so

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Shared by Nick Milton July 31, 2020

3 types of Tacit Knowledge

Favorite In an interesting New Scientist article, Harry Collins (author of “Tacit and Explicit knowledge“) describes three types of Tacit Knowledge.  Image from wikimedia commons We know about the concept of tacit knowledge, which originally was described as knowledge which cannot be expresses (although often nowadays people use the term for knowledge

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Shared by Nick Milton July 30, 2020

Simplifying application onboarding with Amazon CodeGuru Profiler

Favorite Amazon CodeGuru Profiler provides recommendations to help you continuously fine-tune your application’s performance. It does this by collecting runtime performance data from your live applications. It looks for your most expensive lines of code continuously and provides intelligent recommendations. This helps you more easily understand your applications’ runtime behavior

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning July 29, 2020

The essential point of being a knowledge worker

Favorite A blog post appeared in the Huffington Post a few years ago entitled “you are more than a knowledge worker“, which, in my view, completely missed the essential point of knowledge work.  Carmen Iannacone: Hello I’m a knowledge worker. By Michael Edson on Flickr The basic premise on which the

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Shared by Nick Milton July 29, 2020