IBM Watson provides services to enable cognitive functionality in your own applications. In this article I describe on a high level how to ‘mix’ some of these services to build question and answers...

Update November 2016: The dialog service has been deprecated and replaced with the Conversation service. With the IBM Watson Dialog service on Bluemix developers can build applications using natur...

With the Natural Language Classifier Watson service in IBM Bluemix developers can classify natural language so that, for example, you can build a virtual agent application that answers common quest...

The Message Hub service on Bluemix is based on Apache Kafka, which is a fast, scalable, and durable real-time messaging engine. For developers there are Java, Node and REST APIs to leverage Kafka. ...

Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed messaging system which is getting a lot of attention these days. There is good documentation available that describes Kafka’s functionality and benefit...

One year ago I launched Bluemix.info, a news aggregator for Bluemix developers. Over the last year I’ve published 1004 links to Bluemix related articles written by 279 people. Many Bluemix develope...

With the API Management service in Bluemix you can easily manage and monitor APIs. The service can be used as proxy to API implementations where the APIs exposed via the service to developers and t...

In my previous article I described how to use Swagger to document APIs in Node.js applications via a simple hello world sample. Below I demonstrate how to deploy the same sample to Bluemix via Dock...

Last week I described how to use Swagger in Spring Boot applications to document APIs. Below is a quick overview how to do this in Node.js applications. As I wrote earlier I like the model to docu...

IBM Bluemix supports different ways to package applications and to deploy and run them in the cloud (“compute options”). Developers can choose between Cloud Foundry and Docker. The two models have ...