DeveloperWeek 2017

Bots are gaining momentum, and with so many bot platforms, frameworks, and services out there it’s hard to know where to start. If you're interested in building your own bot chances are you already have most of the skills required to do so. In this talk I’ll walk through a series of bots built on different bot platforms, like Slack and Twilio. We’ll talk about simple request/response based bots as well as conversational bots that use natural language processing and other techniques to engage your users. Throughout the talk I’ll discuss the different architecture and design challenges we faced and the strategies and architectures we employed to solve them.