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Feb 19, 2019 | Nearly everyday, news headlines and social feeds are dominated by the deadly impacts of extreme weather, leaving us to wonder if these events are getting worse. The answer is yes, says Kait Parker, meteorologist with The Weather Company and Weather.com, an IBM business. "It's not our imagination, we are seeing more disasters," Parker said. "In fact, it feels like we can barely catch our breath from the last one before the next one comes along." From the most destructive wildfire season in California history to the deadly tsunami in Indonesia that capped the year, more than 10,000 people around the…
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Feb 19, 2019 | At Think 2019, Ginni Rometty, IBM Chairman, President and CEO, led a panel of experts to discuss the value of open source in the enterprise. Guests included Abby Kearns, Executive Director, Cloud Foundry; Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation; Steve O'Grady, Principal Analyst & Co-founder, Redmonk; Dr. Marcelo Labre, Executive Director, Risk Management Division, Morgan Stanley; and Andre Fuetsch, President, AT&T Labs and Chief Technology Officer, AT&T. Here are some of the most memorable moments from the group discussion, which was structured around 4 key questions. 1. What is the state of open source today? Jim Zemlin: "Open source…
Feb 19, 2019 | What do you do if you're hungry but don't know which restaurant to choose or even what's nearby? Enter WatsonEats, a mobile app that helps you find the nearest restaurant or coffee shop. Built with Swift, Watson Assistant, and the Google Places API, the app provides a chatbot to help you locate nearby food establishments. You can click here to see a demo of the app In the app, I use these technologies: The Watson Assistant service is used as the chabot Google Places is used to locate the nearby restaurants and coffee shops Swift is used for programming the…
Feb 18, 2019 | Editor's note: We hope you were able to tune in for the live coverage from Think! If you weren't able to live stream, you can catch full replays at the IBM Developer Twitch channel! Mark your calendars for February 13 - 14 IBM Developer Advocates will be streaming live on Twitch from Think 2019 in San Francisco! There will be live coding, interviews, guests, and surprises throughout the broadcast. We have 2 days of non-stop action, starting at 9:00am PST on February 13th and 14th. Our guests will show off the latest in AI, containers, and open source. Watch live…
Feb 15, 2019 | At DXC, a global IT and consulting firm, we are always looking to leverage the best possible tools to serve our clients. On a recent project, our team was tasked with building an AI-powered chatbot in the insurance domain for a client, relying on government legislation content for answers. To do this, we turned to Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery, and Watson Knowledge Studio. Users of this system need to be able to ask the Watson Assistant chatbot a question and be given a relevant, accurate answer. While we have built in answers to many common questions and intents, the real…
Feb 15, 2019 | What is cert-manager? Before we can start troubleshooting issues, first we need to discuss the software that we're using. Cert-manager is the next step in the kube-lego project, which handles provisioning of TLS certificates for Kubernetes. Basically, it takes away the manual work of requesting a cert, configuring the cert, and installing the cert. Instead of working directly with Nginx, we can describe what we want configured. Then, the rest is taken care of automatically with ingress resources and the ingress controller. Cert-manager configures new Kubernetes resource types that can be used to configure cerficiates - Certs and Issuers. There…
Feb 13, 2019 | Few people have been more involved in the evolution of open source and open standards technologies than Chris Ferris. The IBM Distinguished Engineer and CTO of Open Technology has been an enthusiastic proponent of open governance for two decades, and was instrumental in IBM's efforts to take a leading role in developing and promoting open technologies. Chris recently sat down with IBM Developer's Kevin Allen to discuss IBM's role in the evolution of open technologies, including Hyperledger. What follows are some key portions of that conversation. (Watch the entire interview here.) Kevin Allen: What are some of the things that…
Feb 13, 2019 | Since the advent of modern computing, the ability of passionate programmers to collaborate on open source code has led to some of the most important software breakthroughs. Today, open source software is more important than ever. In this timeline of major open source milestones, you’ll find that many innovations – such as web browsers, databases and smartphones – are built on decades of open source contributions. Timeline of open source through the decades
Feb 12, 2019 | In 2018, more than 100,000 developers from 156 nations donated their time and talent to create original code and IoT solutions. These tackled everything from the California wildfires, earthquakes in South America, hurricanes and typhoons around the world, and flooding in Kerala, India. When we launched Call for Code last year with creator David Clark Cause, our goal was to inspire developers to build technology solutions that would help our society prepare for, respond to, and recover from natural disasters. The response from developer communities across the globe was overwhelming, exceeding our expectations in every way. We also saw the…
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