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Lessons learned - OneGC Alexa Proof-of-Concept (view source)
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== Parks fees ==
== Parks fees ==
* What went well
* What went well
* After having built a hello, world skill and having learned the basics of building an Alexa Skill and using AWS Lambda, those parts of the development of the Parks fees Skill were easy.
* What could have gone better
* What could have gone better
* Transforming the data into a state in which it could be imported into DynamoDB was a lot of effort due to the dataset being designed for a relational database system and the poor documentation of DynamoDB.
* Querying data from DynamoDB is case-sensitive, but Alexa lower-cases everything. We had to duplicate the 'park name' attribute to have properly-cased and lower-case instances so that we could both search it and display it.
* What to do next time
* What to do next time
* Using a relational database system would have been easier than using DynamoDB.
* What needs to be fixed to make it better
* What needs to be fixed to make it better