Next week I’ll attend Strata + Hadoop World in London where we will present IBM Bluemix. Since this is a big data conference we’ll also demonstrate some ideas of IBM Emerging Technologies how the n...

Over the last weeks I’ve attended two bigger Java conferences in Germany – JavaLand and JAX. It felt like most of the sessions at these conferences were about Docker and microservices. For people w...

This week the JAX conference took place in Mainz, Germany. JAX describes itself as “the leading conference for enterprise technology, software architecture, agility and Java in Europe”. The confere...

When implementing new applications or new functionality I always try to use an existing piece of code as starting point that comes close to what I’m looking for. Even for simple functionality this ...

I’ve the pleasure to work in a team of awesome people in IBM’s Emerging Technologies group. Below are two short videos of demos my colleagues David Barnes and Mark VanderWiele have given recently t...

From April 20th until April 23th the JAX conference will take place in Main, Germany. I have never attended this conference but heard many good things about it. We will present IBM Bluemix in sessi...

This week JavaLand took place in Cologne, Germany. My colleagues David Barnes, Ryan Baxter, Salil Ahuja, Holly Cummins, Hazem Saleh, Georg Sander and I attended the conference and presented IBM Blu...

This week I’m attending CeBIT in Hannover, Germany. Below are some pictures, especially about everything related to IBM Bluemix. IBM has a huge showcase area in hall 2 covering cloud, Watson, mobi...

Next week from March 24th to March 26th JavaLand will take place in the theme park Phantasialand in Cologne, Germany. After the success of the conference last year and from what I’ve heard this yea...

Yesterday I presented “Build cognitive Apps that help enhance, scale and accelerate Human Expertise” at CeBIT. In that session I only used the first two slides and rather did live demos of the Wats...