Last October at Pioneers Festival my colleague David Barnes presented IBM Bluemix in the keynote. Awesome presentation. I hope to see a keynote from David live this year 🙂 David also created the f...

Here is a quick tip for how to deploy new versions of your apps without downtimes. We use this technique to update Bluemix.info, the news aggregator for IBM Bluemix professionals. The information b...

After I’ve implemented my own first Internet Of Things sample application, I’ve searched for other samples and scenarios. There is a whole lot of samples already available ranging from beginner-typ...

This is a slightly unusual blog post since the scenario below has little business value, but maybe it gives people ideas how to leverage the Internet of Things service in Bluemix. During my vacatio...

As you hopefully know by now Bluemix.info is a news aggregator for IBM Bluemix developers and professionals covering news about everything related to IBM’s platform as a service, including runtimes...

In order to scale Bluemix.info we run multiple instances of the application. In this model applications cannot cache data only in an instance/Java runtime since you cannot assume that the data in t...

When Bluemix services are created and bound to applications, they usually provision all artifacts needed to use the services. As result of this provisioning they return information to Bluemix that ...

Bluemix provides a Single Sign On Service to authenticate users against the IBM identity provider, Facebook, Google or LinkedIn. Once authenticated applications can access the profile information o...

In my previous blog entry I described how the REST APIs of Bluemix.info have been implemented. Rather than documenting these APIs somewhere else, I’ve used Java annotations to do this directly in t...

Yesterday Ryan Baxter blogged about how to use Spring Boot to develop your own REST APIs. Sounds pretty good. When I implemented the REST APIs of Bluemix.info I didn’t know about this framework and...