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...
Thumbs Up for Watson's Visual Recognition Service
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...
Building Cognitive Question and Answer Systems via Bluemix
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...
Simple Sample of the Watson Dialog Service in Bluemix
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...
Classify Natural Language without a Background in Machine Learning
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...
Building an Apache Kafka Messaging Consumer on Bluemix
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. ...
Building an Apache Kafka Messaging Producer on Bluemix
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 of Bluemix.info
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...
Assembling REST APIs with the API Management Service on Bluemix
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...
Deploying APIs built via Node.js to IBM Bluemix
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...
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