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Sep 13, 2019 | The Call for Code 2019 Global Challenge ended in July and judging is now under way where the winners will be announced on October 12. You can read about the top regional solutions from this year's challenge and see how all of these teams incorporated cloud technologies to help victims of natural disasters. If you missed out on our hackathons and feel inspired to create tech for good, you're in luck. Due to the overwhelming responses we experienced with Call for Code, IBM launched Code and Response in February 2019 — a multi-year global initiative dedicated to creating and deploying…
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Sep 12, 2019 | Companies with large, monolithic applications are increasingly breaking these unwieldy apps into smaller, containerized microservices. Microservices are popular because they offer agility, speed, and flexibility, but they can be complex, which can be a hurdle for adoption. And having multiple microservices, rather than a single monolith, can increase the attack surface of the app. Istio gives control back to app developers and mesh operators. Specifically, Istio is an open source service mesh platform that ensures that microservices are connecting to each other in a prescribed way while handling failures. With Istio, it's easier to observe what is happening across an…
Sep 11, 2019 | Note: This blog post is part of a series. Hey Appy! I'm glad you're back. Before we get started, I wanted to share with you a poem I've been working on. Ops teams were on their knees. Ops teams were in tears. But Kubernetes came in sight. Kubernetes became their guide. So, what'd you think? Why are you so interested in the ceiling all of a sudden? Hmm, I'll take that as a sign to continue working on my poetry writing skills. Anyway, our last conversation covered container technologies. Now, I think it's time to dive into Kubernetes, don't you…
Sep 10, 2019 | It's with a sense of great pride, and quite a lot of relief, that I salute the Jakarta EE community for the first release of the Jakarta EE platform. The huge community effort involved -- in contributing not only the Java EE technology source code, but also the specifications and TCKs -- has been well-documented, along with some of the challenges along the way. The Eclipse Foundation deserves some significant credit for taking on a whole new role of specification process owner, as well as technology host. And now we can celebrate it all coming together with the release of…
Sep 10, 2019 | Note: This blog post is part of a series. Hello, Developer! I am so glad you could join me today. I'm extremely happy that your child Appy told you about what we discussed, but even happier that you suggested meeting today. I know you want the best for Appy, to look good and get along with others. We've been talking about an appropriate and safe environment for Appy, especially as Appy continues to grow and mature. So, you're trying to work with Docker and need some tips, correct? Well, I am more than happy to help. It's pretty easy. I…
Sep 10, 2019 | Each day in the United States, approximately 9 people are killed and more than 1,000 are injured in crashes caused by distracted driving. This is an alarming number of accidents for any country, and a prevention method must be used. Artificial intelligence can be used to help with this problem. The government can install IoT cameras around the city to monitor these drivers and promote safer driving by applying strict rules. This blog explains how easy is to implement this project by using IBM Watson Studio on IBM Cloud. What is Watson Studio IBM Watson™ Studio is a full suite…
Sep 10, 2019 | Mainframes run 87% of all credit card transactions and 29 billion ATM transactions a day, around the world. To provide perspective, there are approximately 5.6 billion Google searches per day. Here’s your opportunity to learn more about how IBM Z mainframes do all of this and more -- and get hands on with coding challenges. Master the Mainframe, the world's only student mainframe contest, is back for its 15th year in a row! This virtual contest is open to high school and college students worldwide who are looking to gain skills in a real-world, enterprise computing environment. Learn more about…
Sep 06, 2019 | Before we talk about how to use Watson APIs on OpenShift, let's quickly define what they are. Watson APIs: A set of artificial intelligence (AI) services that are available on IBM Cloud that have a REST API and SDKs for many popular languages. Watson Assistant and Watson Discovery are part of this set to name a few. OpenShift: Red Hat OpenShift is a hybrid-cloud, enterprise Kubernetes application platform. IBM Cloud now offers it as a hosted solution or an on-premises platform as a service (PaaS): Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud. It is built around containers, orchestrated and managed by…
Sep 05, 2019 | This post is about ShellCheck and the power that can come from using it to find bugs in shell scripts. Over the years, I wrote a lot of code that glues things together, as a DevOps engineer, production engineer, and developer advocate. Since I spend most of my time on Linux and Mac, bash is the obvious choice for me. However, I started talking to people at different conferences and found out that the idea of linting code is still considered a developer practice, instead of an operator practice, so I'm here to try to set the record straight. Why…
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