Hands-On Serverless Applications with Kotlin

Creating a Lambda function

We will be using Alexa Skills Kit SDK (https://alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-java.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) for Java  and we will author the skill in Java to create this functional endpoint. This has been a recent development that has made it even easier to create Alexa Skills using JVM languages. Till recently, developers had to implement the com.amazon.speech.speechlet.SpeechletV2 interface while creating a Lambda function that became the functional endpoint for a skill. The skill's code developed in this way was pretty verbose. A sample implementation using this approach can be found here. Interested readers can go and check out the skill sample. After the Skill Kit SDK for Java was released, it became even easier ...