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Wayne Crissman

Vote for Pizza with Slack: Python in AWS Lambda

We knew this day would come and we :heart: it. Amazon now supports Python in Lambda. When we're not building Fugue, frequenting our favorite place for burgers and wings (Rex's Downtown Grill FTW!), or finalizing our plans to colonize Mars, we write Slack bots. We have a few Slack bots sitting on EC2 instances managed by Fugue but nothing running in Lambda... yet. Our goal for this project: User types a keyword into Slack Slack POSTs to a URL hosted on AWS API Gateway, backed by Lambda Votebot posts voting ballot to Slack, ready for votes via reaction emoji User closes the ballot and bot tallies then posts the results. In short, this: (More options were available, but not shown in this screenshot.) Then, once we've battled over which pizza is best, we close voting...