I want to describe another way to run the Highscores-Service of the Blue-Cloud-Mirror game in IBM Cloud Kubernetes. Let's get started with the first step, building a container which contains the Scores-Service using Docker .
How to build a container
(outdated) How to prepare for a Hackathon with IBM Cloud?
Today I want to address a common situation for developers: You want to participate in a hackathon, and you plan to use IBM Cloud, but you have never used it before. How to prepare? My motivation to write this blog post is: I support some hackathons as a coach for IBM Cloud PaaS: Hacknext hackathon from... Continue Reading →
#BlueCloudMirror Game – highscores
This is my first blog about this topic, and I will follow with future posts to detail the different parts of highscores (scores) and the technologies and components involved.
(Outdated) Cloud Foundry on top of Kubernetes @IBM Cloud – a small test
This blog is related to the topics Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment , serverless , code patterns and the IBM Coder Program. I just want to move an existing Cloud Foundry app on IBM Cloud to the new IBM Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment,which instantiates Cloud Foundry on top of Kubernetes. You can find more details about this IBM Cloud offering in this blog... Continue Reading →
(outdated) How to enter your promo code in the newer IBM Cloud UI? (UPDATE)
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 →
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