Internet of Beer: Introducing Simple Beer Service
By Todd Varland, Jeremy Wallace, and Henrik Johansson Solutions Architects, AWS From: https://medium.com/aws-activate-startup-blog/internet-of-beer-introducing-simple-beer-service-63c987037e9e Filling a need — literally! As Solutions Architects for AWS, we get to work with companies of all sizes, helping customers bring interesting new products to market or improve existing ones. We also get inspired by the strong “maker” culture at AWS, which encourages employees to innovate and show the power of the AWS cloud. Recently, we were inspired to develop a side project that we found to be fun and educational. In this post, we share our project with you in the hopes that you will try it out, and also apply it to other parts of your business as you experiment with Internet of Things (IoT) devices. First, a little background: By early 2014, our San Francisco office was expanding rapidly, but we still lacked the cornerstone of any self-respecting tech office: a kegerator. Given the ...