Tag: s3

One thing I find very elegant about working with golang is that it is very open minded about where data is flowing in from or going out to. I recently built an application that downloaded an audio file from one location and pushed it to s3 - and golang makes it very easy to do that without needing to write an intermediate file and then upload that. Here's my code, in case I need to do this again some day :)

I mentioned in my post about creating a new skill for Alexa that I found the workflow quite clunky. Having tried a bit more and bugged a few people to find out how they hadn't killed anyone trying to develop with a workflow like this, I have some tips to share!

Recently I moved some podcasts on to Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, which I know is great and easy to use, and I've used it with some wrappers, but never directly until now. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that S3 is great and easy to use :) I used s3cmd from s3tools - a collection of python scripts that made this really really easy. Even better, I'm an Ubuntu user so s3cmd is already packaged for me and I simply installed with: