Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  This summer, I had the privilege of interning at Amazon with the Alexa Certification Technology (Alexa-Cert-Tech) team located in Sunnyvale, California, USA. My internship was a 13-week program which started on May 28th, 2024. During this internship, I worked mostly as a data scientist intern under the supervision of Praveen Chinnusamy , Bheema Rajulu , and Jingya Li . Throughout this program, I attended weekly meetings with the entire Alexa-Cert-Tech team. The weekly meetings were to update my progress, obtain feedback, resolve issues, or improve the solution. I had one-on-one meetings with my mentors Bheema Rajulu and Jingya Li twice weekly to discuss my progress and any issues I faced. I also met with my manager Praveen Chinnusamy at least once a week. My project was focused on automating Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test statement generation and improving transcript generation using Large Language Models (LLMs) . This blog post will dive deep into the challenges, s...

Introduction Cloud computing has been increasing in popularity for some time now and continuously evolving. One recent trend in cloud computing is the use of serverless technologies. As a matter of fact, serverless made the Forbe's top 5 cloud computing trends in 2022 . When many think of serverless technologies, they think of functions like AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions . However, serverless containers like Google Cloud Run and  Azure Container Apps   have become available  over the past few years  and are growing in usage. They allow developers to  containerize applications with the desired flexibility and scalability while avoiding a lot of the hassles of infrastructure provisioning, patching, and complicated configurations that might be encountered with technologies like Kubernetes. In this blog, I  will describe how to deploy a simple Python application using two serverless container options provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS):  AWS Ela...