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Monday, 15 October, 2018 UTC
Hosting Static Web Application Resources on OpenWhisk
The tutorial Serverless Web Application and API describes how to develop serverless APIs and web applications via IBM Functions, the IBM Functions API Gateway and a No-SQL database. The static web resources are hosted via GitHub Pages. I’ve open sourced ... moreThursday, 20 September, 2018 UTC
Installing Knative on the IBM Cloud
I finally found some time to start playing with Knative. It took me a few hours to get a simple sample running. Below I describe some pitfalls when installing Knative and tips how to avoid them. With the official instructions and these tips it shouldn’t ... moreMonday, 17 September, 2018 UTC
Training TensorFlow Object Detection Models
TensorFlow Object Detection is a powerful technology to recognize different objects in images including their positions. The trained Object Detection models can be run on mobile and edge devices to execute predictions really fast. I’ve used this technology ... moreFriday, 3 August, 2018 UTC
Deploying Machine Learning Models in the Cloud
For software development there are many methodologies, patterns and techniques to build, deploy and run applications. DevOps is the state of the art methodology which describes a software engineering culture with a holistic view of software development ... moreThursday, 2 August, 2018 UTC
Training AI Models on Kubernetes
Early this year IBM announced Deep Learning as a Service within Watson Studio. The core of this service is available as open source and can be run on Kubernetes clusters. This allows developers and data scientists to train models with confidential data ... moreTuesday, 10 July, 2018 UTC
Deploying TensorFlow Models on Edge Devices
While it has been possible to deploy TensorFlow models to mobile and embedded devices via TensorFlow for Mobile for some time, Google released an experimental version of TensorFlow Lite as an evolution of TensorFlow for Mobile at the end of last year. ... moreTuesday, 26 June, 2018 UTC
Hyperparameter Optimization with IBM Watson Studio
In March IBM announced Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) which is part of IBM Watson Studio. Below I describe how to use this service to train models and how to optimize hyperparameters to easily find the best quality model. I’m not a data scientist, ... moreMonday, 18 June, 2018 UTC
Training TensorFlow.js Models with IBM Watson
Recently Google introduced TensorFlow.js, which is a JavaScript library for training and deploying machine learning models in browsers and on Node.js. I like especially the ability to run predictions in browsers. Since running this code locally saves ... moreMonday, 30 April, 2018 UTC
Pictures from JAX 2018
Last week my colleagues and I attended JAX, which is a developer conference with 2000 attendees with a focus on Java and enterprise technologies. My colleagues and I presented and demonstrated the IBM Cloud and the IBM Code developer site. Below are ... moreMonday, 16 April, 2018 UTC
Developing Polyglot Applications with OpenWhisk
As serverless platforms mature, more and more sophisticated cloud-native applications are built with serverless technologies. I’ve created a sample application which uses multiple functions which have been developed with JavaScript, TypeScript, Java ... moreThursday, 12 April, 2018 UTC
Serverless and Kubernetes Demos
Over the next weeks I’ll repeat my session “When to use Serverless? When to use Kubernetes?” several times. As backup and for people who won’t attend the sessions I’ve recorded the demos. Read the summary of the session and get the slides. Demo 1 – 0:33 ... moreWednesday, 28 March, 2018 UTC
Developing Polyglot Serverless Applications
As serverless platforms mature, more and more sophisticated cloud-native applications are built with serverless technologies. These applications are assembled with potentially many functions that are loosely-coupled and can be developed by different ... moreTuesday, 27 March, 2018 UTC
Developing protected Serverless Web Applications
Serverless platforms are often used to build APIs for web and mobile apps. I’ve open sourced a pattern that shows how to implement protected APIs with IBM Cloud Functions and how to invoke them from Angular web applications. Get the code from GitHub. ... moreFriday, 9 March, 2018 UTC
Developing OpenWhisk Functions with Kotlin in IntelliJ
I’ve implemented some code that shows how Apache OpenWhisk functions can be developed with Kotlin. The Java code is built via Gradle and put into a Docker image which can be deployed to OpenWhisk cloud providers like the IBM Cloud. Get the code from ... moreMonday, 26 February, 2018 UTC
Transforming JSON Data in Serverless Applications
Serverless platforms like Apache OpenWhisk are gaining more and more traction. Rather than building only single functions, developers are starting to develop cloud-native applications with many serverless functions/microservices. The challenge when building ... moreThursday, 22 February, 2018 UTC
Data Flows in Serverless Cloud-Native Applications
Serverless platforms like Apache OpenWhisk are gaining more and more traction. Rather than building only single functions, developers are starting to develop cloud-native applications with many serverless functions/microservices. The challenge when building ... moreFriday, 9 February, 2018 UTC
Developing Serverless Functions with TypeScript
One of the coolest capabilities of Apache OpenWhisk is the ability to develop functions with Docker. This allows you to develop functions in languages which are not supported out of the box by the platform. I’ve open sourced a sample that shows how to ... moreFriday, 2 February, 2018 UTC
Presentation how to create Alexa Skills with IBM Watson
Last week there was a webinar Create Alexa skills with Watson Conversation where I was supposed to present. However since I couldn’t make it, my colleague Mark Sturdevant jumped in on a short notice and did a great job. You can watch the recording, read ... moreWednesday, 10 January, 2018 UTC
Debugging Apache OpenWhisk Functions with VS Code
As a developer I develop and debug code locally as much as possible. I’ve written some sample code that shows how to debug Node.js OpenWhisk functions via Visual Studio Code. The sample code explains how to debug single-file functions, zipped multi-file ... moreThursday, 16 November, 2017 UTC
Building Facebook Messenger Bots with Botkit and Watson
I’ve implemented a sample Facebook Messenger bot which leverages the Node.js library Botkit and IBM Watson Conversation. With Botkit you can build bots for Slack, Facebook Messenger, Twilio and other messaging clients. For natural language understanding ... moreWednesday, 15 November, 2017 UTC
Integrating Applications without writing Code
IBM App Connect is an IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) to connect different applications without having to write code. Similarly to IFTTT users are typically business users or citizen developers from line of business departments. App Connect ... moreWednesday, 18 October, 2017 UTC
My Favorite IBM Developer Journeys
The team of developer advocates within IBM has created a new site with journeys for developers. Journeys are sample scenarios that are available as open source, well documented and easy to reuse and deploy. There are roughly 60 journeys right now and ... moreTuesday, 17 October, 2017 UTC
Fast On-Ramp for building Cloud-Native Apps
In order for developers to get started quickly to build applications and deploy them on the IBM Cloud, new starter kits have been made available. Check out the new IBM Cloud App Service. You can choose from several template the type of application or ... moreMonday, 16 October, 2017 UTC
How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript
Last week Ansgar Schmidt and I gave a session at Codemotion How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript. Below are the slides with screenshots of our demos. We demonstrated how to write a Node.js application that uses Botkit to connect with Slack ... moreTuesday, 10 October, 2017 UTC
Composing Serverless Apps with IBM Cloud Functions
Today at Serverlessconf IBM announced a new key capability (as IBM Research preview) of IBM Cloud Functions. With the new tool ‘Composer‘ apps can be created which contain multiple cloud functions. These apps coordinate the invocations of actions and ... moreThursday, 5 October, 2017 UTC
Testing Watson Conversations in Slack
Next week Ansgar Schmidt and I will give a session ‘How to write your own Slack Chatbots in Javascript‘ at codemotion. We will demonstrate how to connect Slack to Watson Conversation via the open source project botkit which leverages the Slack Real Time ... moreMonday, 7 August, 2017 UTC
Accessing Bluemix Services from Client-side Web Applications
Bluemix is IBM’s cloud platform to build and host applications which can leverage more than 100 services, for example databases and cognitive services. The services provide APIs which require credentials. Applications which are hosted on Bluemix as Cloud ... moreTuesday, 1 August, 2017 UTC
Angular Form Validations with Redux for multiple Routes
Many frontend applications require the extensive use of forms to allow users entering information. Angular supports various mechanisms to handle forms, but I’ve struggled to figure out how to handle validations of data on different pages/routes. Below ... moreMonday, 10 July, 2017 UTC
Building Serverless Web Applications with OpenWhisk
Apache OpenWhisk is an open source cloud platform that executes functions in response to events at any scale. For example OpenWhisk can be used to run business logic in response to invocations from web and mobile apps over HTTP. This article describes ... moreMonday, 26 June, 2017 UTC
