This is just a small update to my blog post Promo code and free Kubernetes Cluster @IBM Cloud specific to the topic promo codes. Also be aware that a promo code is a feature code @IBM Cloud. Currently IBM Cloud provides two UIs to access the IBM Cloud. But don’t be afraid, when entering your code, this will work for... Continue Reading →
Operations and Developers side by side @“Continuous Lifecycle” and “Container Conf”
Niklas Heidloff and I attended the combined software development conference for “Continuous Lifecycle”and “Container Conf” in Mannheim Rosengarten on 14.11. and 15.11.2018. The conference was sold out and had more than 700 attendees. This was a great place where developer and operation experts exchanged different perspectives. The talks at the conference were about Micro Services, Docker, Serverless,... Continue Reading →
Let‘s Code Pattern 02: Diversity and Inclusion – ensure loan fairness
The good combination of IBM coder program and code patterns motivated me to dig in into the data science area a little bit, relating to the real-world topic diversity and inclusion . Also it was interesting to see: How the AI Fairness 360 toolkit, which is an open-source library to help detect and remove bias in machine learning models,... Continue Reading →
Promo code and free Kubernetes Cluster @IBM Cloud
You may have received a promo/feature code when you attended a conference, meetup, or hackathon, but you have no experience with IBM Cloud yet, and you want to access the free Kubernetes cluster in the IBM Cloud as soon as possible, because you can use the cluster for your own "playing" and "testing". To create a the... Continue Reading →
big open source players were “cap by hat” @w-jax
I was at winter-jax 2018 in Munich last week. This was my first time I attended this big developer conference. As you can see in the headline picture, two big players in open source area with cap by hat and IBM, RedHat booths and with Viada 😉 One major topic this week was the potential deal, IBM is planning to buy RedHat... Continue Reading →
“code pattern” – my point of view
Today I want to focus on a interesting question I got: "Why does IBM call something a code pattern and not just sample?" The question was related to my last blog. Here is my personal point of view First, there is no existing definition of the word pattern in combination with usage of the word code. Based on... Continue Reading →
Let‘s Code Pattern 01: Use blockchain to track fitness club rewards
What is Let‘s code pattern? I am starting a blog series to explore blog series to explore some code patterns, like those which are available on IBM Developer. I will call these series Let‘s code pattern . Definitions for Let‘s code pattern On IBM Developer website, there are complete solutions to problems that developers face... Continue Reading →
Being @Code.Talks the Germany’s Largest Developer Conference
Here is my point of view of that conference, with some pictures made during the conference. It was a conference about being a speaker in the developer advocate role, doing teaming at the booth, having very good discussions, “sprit coins” 😉 at the party and no to forget good food at an exciting location the... Continue Reading →
Being one of the coaches at the largest Healthcare Hackathon in Europe
I want just to give you a brief personal impression about 1 ½ days of my last week as a Developer Advocate at IBM. Being one the of coaches at the largest Healthcare Hackathon in Europe was incredible. The Hack was supported by the University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Merck , the Kieler Nachrichten and IBM . Around 150 hackers worked for... Continue Reading →
Why should I blog about this topic? You can just “google” and find the resources by your own. I write this blog post, because I want to share briefly my experience with you and I hope you can save time, when you get started with IBM Cloud development. This blog post is about following major IBM Cloud information... Continue Reading →
