With the new beta service Apache Spark and the support of Jupyter Notebooks in IBM Bluemix data analysts can run large scale data processing. The output can be visualized directly in the notebooks ...

My colleague Ryan Baxter pointed me to a nice tool to set up new web applications. The tool is called Yeoman, the “web’s scaffolding tool for modern webapps”. The tool helps especially developers w...

As a developer I prefer graphical tools since I often cannot remember all the different commands for various CLIs (command line interfaces). In cases where I have to use CLIs I write down my own li...

When building new applications on the cloud, enterprises often need to access existing data that resides on-premises. Below is a high level description how to access data in on-premises XPages NoSQ...

Recently IBM has added a beta version of the new Apache Spark service to IBM Bluemix. Apache Spark is a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. Performance benchmarks have shown th...

Before my vacation I blogged about the Docker tooling in Eclipse to build Liberty based images for Bluemix. This tooling helps to create images and containers including the applications which is th...

While some developers prefer command line tools, I often use graphical tools if available since I cannot memorize all the different commands. That’s why I tried the relative new Docker Tooling for ...

Similarly to the dependency managers mvn, npm, cocoapods, etc. Bower is a nice dependency manager for web resources to pull down JavaScript, CSS and other files. This makes it easy for developers t...

Recently I had some time to build another IBM Bluemix demonstration which showcases the Internet of Things functionality and cognitive Watson services. With the “Bluemix Selfie Drone” application y...

For some people this is old news, but I just used for the first time the Cloud Foundry Maven Plugin to build and deploy a Bluemix application and it made the deployment really easy. Below are some ...