Many developers want to know whether they should use Serverless or Kubernetes to build cloud-native applications. Both computing options have pros and cons and it depends on your needs which option...

Watson Machine Learning can be used by data scientists to create models which can be managed and deployed on the IBM Cloud. Developers can access these models from applications, for example to run ...

Last week I gave a presentation “When to use Serverless? When to use Kubernetes?” One of the weaknesses of Serverless platforms is that you currently cannot do things like A/B testing well since th...

One of the coolest capabilities of Apache OpenWhisk is the ability to develop functions with Docker. This allows you to develop functions in languages which are not supported out of the box by the ...

This week I attended OOP in Munich, Germany, which is a conference with 2300 attendees. My colleagues and I presented and demonstrated the IBM Cloud. Below are some pictures. The IBM team: Ansg...

Last week there was a webinar Create Alexa skills with Watson Conversation where I was supposed to present. However since I couldn’t make it, my colleague Mark Sturdevant jumped in on a short notic...

A question that I get asked very often these days is: Should I use Serverless or Kubernetes to build cloud native applications? Both computing options have pros and cons and it depends on your need...

As a developer I develop and debug code locally as much as possible. I’ve written some sample code that shows how to debug Node.js OpenWhisk functions via Visual Studio Code. The sample code expla...

With the IBM Watson Conversation service you can easily recognize intents and entities in user phrases and you can define flows of dialogs declaratively. Recently a new feature was added (as beta) ...

The Anki Cozmo robot can recognize faces and objects with markers like Cozmo’s Power Cubes. Ansgar Schmidt and I have developed some sample code to allow Cozmo to recognize other types of objects v...