Why developers like Alexa

What is Alexa?

It is a cloud-based voice service and the brain behind tens of millions of devices including the Echo family of devices, FireTV, Fire Tablet, and third-party devices. You can build voice experiences, or skills, that make everyday tasks faster, easier, and more delightful for customers.

Alexa is a tool in the Voice AI category of a tech stack.

Who uses Alexa?

Companies

7 companies reportedly use Alexa in their tech stacks, including PlayAsYouGo, development, and Platform.

PlayAsYouGo

development

Platform

Crit Cola

Quillie

backend-cloud

boop

Developers

216 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Alexa.

richiverse stack

research

My Stack

lab1

Fit Pop

My Stack

Alexa Integrations

Power BI, Raspberry Pi, Todoist, Voiceflow, and Remember The Milk are some of the popular tools that integrate with Alexa. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Alexa.

Power BI

Raspberry Pi

Todoist

Voiceflow

Remember The Milk

Gupshup Enterprise

Flow.ai

TickTick

True Reply

Decisions about Alexa

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Alexa in their tech stack.

Arthur Boghossian

DevOps Engineer at PlayAsYouGo · Feb 6, 2020 | 3 upvotes · 148.6K views

Shared insights

For our Compute services, we decided to use AWS Lambda as it is perfect for quick executions (perfect for a bot), is serverless, and is required by Amazon Lex, which we will use as the framework for our bot. We chose Amazon Lex as it integrates well with other #AWS services and uses the same technology as Alexa. This will give customers the ability to purchase licenses through their Alexa device. We chose Amazon DynamoDB to store customer information as it is a noSQL database, has high performance, and highly available. If we decide to train our own models for license recommendation we will either use Amazon SageMaker or Amazon EC2 with AWS Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS ASG as they are ideal for model training and inference.

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Alexa Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Alexa?

Echo

It is a high performance, extensible, minimalist web framework for Go (Golang).

Twilio

Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs.

Twilio SendGrid

Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's.

Amazon SES

Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2.

Mailgun

Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly.

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