In the previous blog entry I described how to document REST APIs in Spring Boot applications via Swagger. Below I explain how to deploy these applications as Docker containers to IBM Bluemix. As ex...

As IBM VP Angel Diaz stated in an interview on SearchCloudComputing “Swagger is the way most developers describe [REST] APIs”. With version 2.0 many important features like extensibility have been ...

Over the weekend I migrated my blog to WordPress. This allows me to benefit from the huge amount of themes and plugins, for example to display source code. While I still want to tune a couple of th...

IBM Bluemix provides a set of Docker images in the catalog to help developers to get started. Below is a short description how to configure the ibmliberty image to see the logs in the Bluemix dashb...

IBM Bluemix provides built in DevOps services to manage source code and to build, test and deploy applications to Bluemix. This works well for many scenarios, esp. when deploying single application...

At code.talks I gave a session Rapid Application Development in the Cloud and On-Premises with Docker. Below is the recording of my German session. You can find my slides on Slideshare and other s...

Last week James Thomas, Jonathan Kaufman, Soheel Chughtai, Swati Goel and I attended W-JAX in Germany. W-JAX is a conference for enterprise developers with 1200 attendees with a packed agenda. The...

One of the great capabilities of Bluemix is that developers can see information about how their mobile apps are used in a server side dashboard. This includes usage statistics, network traffic and ...

Earlier this month Ginni Rometty spoke about the importance of cognitive computing and IBM’s bet on the the Cognitive Era. Cognitive computing enables more natural interactions of people with techn...

Last month IBM acquired StrongLoop, a company that provides functionality to power the API economy via Node in enterprises. Specifically StrongLoop provides capabilities to develop REST APIs in Nod...