Cork Hounds made the trek, with our dachshund mascot, Greta from our home base in DC to Paso Robles, California to attend the 11th Annual Wine4Paws charity event. Paso Robles
PART 1: The Wine4Paws Charity Event and Dog-Friendly Vineyards in Paso Robles, California
About half-way between Los Angeles and the Bay Area is the small town of Paso Robles. If it wasn’t for the massive amount of viticulture going on in this
Processing Multipart/Form-Data using API Gateway and a Java Lambda Proxy for storage in S3
I am working on a new project for Cork Hounds, and spent some time recently figuring out how to upload files to Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3)
Part 2: Containerizing and Running Foursquare's TwoFishes with Persistent Storage
In Part 1 of this two-part series, I looked at Forward and Reverse Geocoding using FourSquare's TwoFishes. I provided some background on TwoFishes, and shared some lessons that I learned
Part 1: Forward and Reverse Geocoding using FourSquare's TwoFishes
Last year, I created the Amazon Alexa Skill for Cork Hounds which takes a City/State, and responds with the nearest fully dog friendly vineyard. When I first started that
Changes to our Web and Mobile User Interfaces
You may have noticed a recent change that we made to our search results having to do with Ratings. If you are curious as to why, this blog is for
Migrating from Self-Managed Docker to ECS - EC2 Instances
I recently migrated our four containerized microservices from self managed Docker to AWS ECS. We are adding a lot more vineyards (the addition of California more than doubles the number
Design and Test Considerations for an AWS Serverless Architecture
This post is a companion blog to a recent post on Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap that I published in January. We recently released our Mobile Application
Building a Hybrid Mobile Application with Adobe Phonegap
This blog has been a long time coming, as I've been working on the Cork Hounds iOS Mobile Application for the better part of 2017. I decided to use Phonegap
Coding an Amazon Alexa Skill in Java Using Dialog Directives
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to look into writing an Amazon Alexa Skill using the Java SDK. Alexa was an early entrant into the voice service market, allowing
Geospatial Queries on AWS DynamoDB
I'm currently using Postgres/PostGIS for all our Geospatial queries. This works well with our microservices architecture. However, as I build out the backend for our Mobile app architecture using
Traveling With Your Dog: 14 Tips For A Fun Trip
Want to hit the open road with your pup by your side? Nothing can be more fun than going on an adventure with your loyal companion (using Corkhounds.com as
Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS in AWS
I wanted an easy way in AWS (e.g. using an Elastic Load Balancer) to rewrite/redirect a URL in Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) but had to find an alternate
Building Cork Hounds in the Cloud (A Multi-part Series)
Welcome to the first tech blog on our Cork Hounds adventure. While building Cork Hounds has given Peggy and I an excuse to travel in search of dog friendly vineyards