Bluemix is IBM’s cloud platform to build and host applications which can leverage more than 100 services, for example databases and cognitive services. The services provide APIs which require crede...

Many frontend applications require the extensive use of forms to allow users entering information. Angular supports various mechanisms to handle forms, but I’ve struggled to figure out how to handl...

My colleague Ansgar Schmidt and I have developed a new tool for developers to simplify building conversational user experiences with IBM Watson Conversation. The tool displays JSON data of REST API...

Apache OpenWhisk is an open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale. For example OpenWhisk can be used to run business logic in response to invocations from...

For a Bluemix DevOps workshop I’ve prepared a deck that gives an overview of the Continues Delivery functionality in IBM Bluemix. In the first part I describe why Continuous Delivery is important,...

I’ve open sourced a sample that shows how to build Alexa skills via the serverless framework OpenWhisk and IBM Watson Conversation. The sample demonstrates how to define a conversation flow declara...

Today, IBM announced a new collaborative development initiative with Lightbend, a provider of a reactive application development platform for building distributed apps. When trying to learn more ab...

I’ve open sourced a simple sample that shows how to leverage IBM Watson Conversation in Slack bots via the open source project Botkit. With Botkit and a Watson middleware text messages defined in C...

In my previous role I worked on improvements for tooling for conversational user experiences. One of these improvements was an easy way to gather user input before actions are invoked. These typica...

Earlier this year IBM introduced a new service DevOps Insights (beta) which helps among other things to reduce deployment risks. Policies can be defined to ensure that unit tests, functional tests ...