The team of developer advocates within IBM has created a new site with journeys for developers. Journeys are sample scenarios that are available as open source, well documented and easy to reuse and deploy. There are roughly 60 journeys right now and new ones are published regularly. (more…)

In order for developers to get started quickly to build applications and deploy them on the IBM Cloud, new starter kits have been made available. Check out the new IBM Cloud App Service. (more…)

Last week Ansgar Schmidt and I gave a session at Codemotion How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript. Below are the slides with screenshots of our demos. (more…)

Today at Serverlessconf IBM announced a new key capability (as IBM Research preview) of IBM Cloud Functions. With the new tool 'Composer' apps can be created which contain multiple cloud functions. These apps coordinate the invocations of actions and the data flow. Compared to the previously available action sequences the new functionality is much more flexible. (more…)

Next week Ansgar Schmidt and I will give a session 'How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript' at codemotion. We will demonstrate how to connect Slack to Watson Conversation via the open source project botkit which leverages the Slack Real Time Messaging API. (more…)

Last week I attended code.talks in Hamburg, Germany, which is a development conference with roughly 1500 attendees. As always it was a pleasure to listen to great speakers and to talk with developers at our booth. Below are some pictures. (more…)

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. With Helm you can very easily deploy applications, tools and databases like MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Wordpress and Apache Spark into your own Kubernetes clusters. Below is a brief description how to use Helm for the IBM Cloud Container service. (more…)

Eclipse MicroProfile is an open source project to optimize Enterprise Java for microservices architectures. MicroProfile based applications can be deployed to Kubernetes. This article describes how to build microservices via the Microservice Builder and how to deploy them to Bluemix. (more…)

Eclipse MicroProfile is an open source project to optimize Enterprise Java for microservices architectures. MicroProfile based applications can be deployed to Kubernetes. This article describes how to deploy a sample application to IBM Cloud private. (more…)

Last month IBM announced the general availability of Watson Machine Learning which can be used by data scientists to create models and it can be used by developers to run predictions from their applications. Below is a simple sample walkthrough. (more…)