My brother, Bob, died on February 23, 2023. These are the words I spoke at his funeral in Ellicott City, Maryland. Good morning. My name is Andrew Prokop and Bob was my older brother. Most of you know the story of the blind men and the elephant. The first man felt its trunk and proclaimed, […]
My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. Joan Jett I am continually impressed by how easy it is to create amazing AI workflows with Avaya’s Virtual Agent Studio (a custom instance of the Cognigy platform). Even me, a hard-core programmer, loves the no-code, drag-and-drop interface. […]
This is how memories are made…by going with the flow. Amanda Bynes These past several days have seen me immersed in learning and working with Avaya’s Virtual Agent Studio. Simply put, Virtual Agent Studio is a platform for creating AI-infused virtual agents. Virtual Agent Studio agents can then be used for chat bots, web bots, […]
“For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.” Nicolaus Copernicus Wikipedia defines Composability as: Composability is a system design principle that deals with the inter-relationships of components. A highly composable system provides components that can be selected and assembled in various combinations […]
“Great strategy is consummately practical.” – Salam Al Shereida Anyone who has followed my writing over the past several years knows that I am a practical, nuts and bolts kind of guy. While there is nothing wrong with high-level discussions, I like to get my hands dirty by working with the technology I write about. […]
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin As most of my readers know, I began this blog writing about the specifics of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). In fact, for the longest time I called this site SIP Adventures and filled these pages with scores […]
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.” Vineet Bajpai Those who know […]
“You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.” Julia Child In hockey they call it a hat trick. In horse racing it’s the triple crown. In programming we just call it slogging through until you get it right. That’s pretty much how I feel now that I have figured out […]
“Most martial artists want to know how a technique is done. A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why.” Soke Behzad Ahmadi In An AWS Lambda Microservice Cookbook, I took you through the steps required to create a Lambda function that was ultimately integrated into an Avaya Virtual Agent agent. Realizing that AWS isn’t the only game […]
“Most martial artists want to know how a technique is done. A seasoned Sensei will demonstrate why.” Soke Behzad Ahmadi In my previous article, Serverless Avaya Virtual Agent Integrations, I presented a high-level description of serverless, microservices using AWS Lambda. This article is for those of you who are interested in how it’s done. As […]
Tao, Zen, and Tomorrow 