In this month's edition:

Leveraging NLP to build a Symphony Bot
Introducing BDK 2.0 for Python

Product

New in Symphony 20.12
New in BDK 2.0 for Java

Training

Symphony Developer Days

Bot Developer Kit 2.0 for Python

We are launching the BDK 2.0 for Python ahead of schedule! Like the BDK 2.0 for Java, the Python variant has been redesigned from scratch to greatly simplify the bootstrapping process. It will also support common structures like RealTimeEventListeners, the Activities API and the @slash decorator that allows you to define a slash command with a single line of code.

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Keep an eye out for a new Developer Certification track: “Python Bot Developer Certification”. This will cover the BDK 2.0 for Python in depth and will be similar to the Java Bot Developer Certification launched earlier this year.
We will also publish new guides specifically for BDK 2.0 for Python, to provide Python-specific collateral in our Tutorials section of the Symphony Developers Documentation site.

Build-a-Bot upcoming sessions

MAY: Leveraging NLP to build a Symphony Bot

Learn how to integrate NLU/NLP technologies with Symphony's BDK 2.0. We will provide a step-by-step demo on how NLP can be useful in chatbot implementations and more.

JUNE: Introducing BDK 2.0 for Python

During this session, our Developer Relations team will showcase the BDK 2.0 for Python and demonstrate how you can get started building Python bots in seconds.

Product updates

New in Symphony 20.12

Bots can now suppress their own messages using the standard suppress message endpoint. You can use this to suppress time-sensitive content that is no longer relevant or to prevent submission of forms that have expired.

New in BDK 2.0 for Java

Convenience classes have been added to help perform common message processing tasks. You can use these to extract text content, hash tags, cash tags, @mentions and emojis from incoming message payloads.

Training

Symphony Developer Days

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