This is the journey of author to create serverless solution written in Go which enabled him to be notified about best currency exchange rates for his small business. Nice one!
Having a personal Forex bot is very useful only if it is always up and running. AWS Lambda is a virtually free solution to host a simple program like mine (or even small microservice architectures), so I refactored my code to run as a serverless function. By Loris Occhipinti.
Sometimes, a client may be willing to pay you in its local currency only. Of course, this is a slight inconvenience but, after all, setting up a multicurrency account is usually easy and inexpensive, so it might be best to accept the arrangement and plan to convert the money later.
The strategy for bot was simple: sending a notification every 2 hours with the current rate and the potential gain or loss I could make at that point in time. The most critical part was getting correct, timely data about exchanges: there are myriads of APIs that can help with this,
This is the journey of author to create serverless solution to enable hi to convert currencies at most favorable terms and rates for his small business. Nice one!
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