Deploy a minimal Node.js application to IBM Bluemix
IBM Bluemix documentation[1] provides broad coverage of the platform's many features. Instead of trying to address all these features at the same time, this post will take a layered approach starting...
View ArticleDeploy a Hello World PHP Application to Zend Server on IBM Bluemix
The previous post demonstrated how to deploy a trivial Node.js application to IBM Bluemix. There I also introduced the basics of manifest.yml file used by Bluemix and Cloud Foundry as a deployment...
View ArticleDevelop a REST Service using Play and PostgreSQL on IBM Bluemix: Part One
This post will show how to use the Play framework[1] with IBM Bluemix to develop and run a very simple REST style web application. The application supports APIs to create, retrieve, update and delete...
View ArticleTop 10 reasons why you should choose IBM Bluemix for your Cloud Platform as a...
This post is going to add some variety to all the technical content you've been seeing on this blog. So without further ado, here are the top 10 reasons why you should choose IBM Bluemix for your cloud...
View ArticleChoose IBM’s Docker-based Container Service on Bluemix for your I/O...
Roughly a week ago IBM announced a new Docker-based service[1] as part of Bluemix PaaS[2]. It is still early but the service looks very promising, especially for I/O heavy workloads like databases and...
View ArticleIBM Bluemix, OpenWhisk, Docker, Python, and Twilio app to start with...
Once Forbes starts to cover serverless computing[1] you know that it is time to begin paying attention. Today, there are many frameworks that can help you get started with serverless computing, for...
View ArticleUse IBM Bluemix, NoSQL Cloudant, OpenWhisk, Docker, and Twilio to Send text...
This post is a Part 2 in a series on serverless computing. The last post described how to build a simple but useful text messaging application written in Python, packaged in a Docker image on Docker...
View ArticleIBM Bluemix Node.JS App with OpenWhisk for serverless geocoding of postal...
Until recently, platform as a service (PaaS) clouds offered competing approaches on how to implement traditional Extract Transform Load (ETL) style workloads in cloud computing environments. Vendors...
View ArticleComposable Architecture Patterns for Serverless Computing Applications on IBM...
This post is the 4th in a series on serverless computing (see Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3) and will focus on the differences between serverless architectures and the more widely known...
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