For cloud-native applications Kubernetes and Istio deliver a lot of important functionality out of the box, for example to ensure resiliency and scalability. This functionality works generically fo...

In order to learn more about microservices, container orchestration and service meshes, I’ve set up a local development environment with Minikube, Istio and tools like Kiali and created a sample ap...

As developer I like to do as much development as possible locally, because it’s generally easier and faster to develop and debug code. In order to build cloud-native applications and microservices,...

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for deploying and managing containerized applications in public, private and hybrid cloud environments. While Kubernetes is really powerful, it’s not the...

At Think 2019 IBM announced two new add-ons to the IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service: Managed Istio and Managed Knative. My Point of View I like this functionality a lot. Istio is a key component when...

In preparation for a Java conference, I’ve spent some time to catch up on the latest activities in the Java community. With Java EE’s move to Eclipse and projects like MicroProfile there are a lot ...

Blue Cloud Mirror is a game where players need to show specific emotions and do specific poses. The game is a showcase of various IBM Cloud technologies. I’ve created a short video to show how to ...

Blue Cloud Mirror is a game where players need to show specific emotions and do specific poses. In this article I describe briefly the used technologies. You can play the game online. All you need...

Last week I open sourced a web application called Blue Cloud Mirror which is a game where players need to show five specific emotions and do five specific poses in two levels. The faster, the bette...

Recently I open sourced sample code that shows how to develop entire serverless web applications on the IBM Cloud with Apache OpenWhisk. In the original sample I used an Angular application. In thi...