[PyData] Kannappan Sirchabesan: Slack slash app using Google Cloud Functions
PyData London Meetup #54 Tuesday, March 5, 2019 Google Cloud Functions is a lightweight server less way to create single-purpose, stand-alone functions that respond to events. It can be used to build event-driven microservices. This lightning talk will demonstrate the ease of developing Cloud Functions in Python by building a Slack slash app that makes use of Google Knowledge Graph Search API to retrieve quick knowledge snippets of real-world entities like people, places from within Slack. Sponsored & Hosted by Man AHL **** www.pydata.org PyData is an educational program of NumFOCUS, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization in the United States. PyData provides a forum for the international community of users and developers of data analysis tools to share ideas and learn from each other. The global PyData network promotes discussion of best practices, new approaches, and emerging technologies for data management, processing, analytics, and visualization. PyData communities appr...