Month: February 2017

Accessing Azure Table Storage Service and Azure CosmosDB with Table API from a Unity game

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Update (2/1/2018): Blog post and GitHub code has been updated with instructions on how to connect to CosmosDB using Table Storage API.

Azure Table Storage Service is an inexpensive, highly available NoSQL key-value store. It can store petabytes of structured data, supports a flexible data schema and Azure team provides a REST API. Furthermore, Azure CosmosDB has a Table Storage API, so the same code can also be used here. So, I thought, why not extending my Azure Services for Unity library with support for access to Azure Table Storage Service from any Unity game? Well, here we are, our latest commit to the repository contains access methods for the service.

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Hosting a Bot Framework chat bot on a Docker container on Azure App Service on Linux

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Yeah, title is long but nevertheless you get the point of what I’m going to describe. So, to cut a long story short, last weekend I attended a hackathon where my teammates and I built a PoC of a movie quiz chat bot. At the end of the hackathon, we attempted to “dockerize” it and host it on App Service on Linux (currently on preview). This blog post documents the process.

Some prerequisites

  1. Great video intro (+demo!) of chat bots and Microsoft’s Bot Framework, an easy and flexible way to create an awesome chat bot
  2. You can develop a chat bot in many ways, check here for the Bot Builder Node.js SDK
  3. Check out my blog post about building a chat bot for Greek startup ParkAround
  4. App Service is Azure’s PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering, it supports Windows and Linux (preview). Check here for App Service on Linux documentation
  5. You can deploy apps as files into App Service, if you want to deploy a Docker container check here for Docker containers on App Service on Linux

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