Getting Ahead By Deleting Code
summary
A PowerShell chatbot prototype that triggers existing scripts in a company messenger is described including the exact stack: PowerShell Universal for UI, parsing REST with Invoke-RestMethod, debugging with Chrome Network tools and Postman, and offloading async work to Pipedream. The listener is a loop that timestamps processed messages (fragile to crashes and polling load), plugins are ordinary PowerShell functions packaged into a module published to the PowerShell Gallery, the demo works but the deployed product dies when the messaging app is sold.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:08About the speaker and presentation overview
- 10:36UI tools with buttons
- 15:08Chatbots to ChatOps
- 24:40REST APIs explained
- 36:57Webhooks and Postman
- 37:21PowerShell functions
- 45:22Proof-of-concept listener
- 47:07PowerShell modules
- 50:18Module demo and GitHub
- 1:05:20Circuit chatbot demo
- 1:17:46Use cases and outcomes
- 1:19:30Conclusion
- 1:20:34Q&A
