I’ve built a demo that shows how Anki Overdrive cars can be controlled from IBM Bluemix. Commands can be sent from the cloud to the cars, for example in order to set the speed, and the messages fro...

Over the holidays I looked briefly into how to extend Minecraft and how to utilize Bluemix. In multiplayer games it might make sense to understand the personalities of competitors or to understand ...

2015 has been a great year for me. I had the pleasure to work as developer advocate for an innovative technology, I could attend lots of developer conferences, had the opportunity to build cool app...

As the Node-RED website says “Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways”. It has been possible to use Node-RED for Internet of Th...

Update 06/06/16: Check out this article for new functionality in the Watson Visual Recognition Service. Watson’s Visual Recognition (beta) service on Bluemix understands the contents of images. Si...

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...