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Archived content from my time in developer relations at IBM, covering cloud, AI, serverless, and open source technologies, roughly 2018-2021.
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In a previous blog post I showed how to create your first cloud function (plus a video). It’s very likely that your cloud function will need to invoke an external REST API. The following tutorial will show you how to create such function (it’s very easy). Sign into an IBM Cloud account Click Catalog Remove…
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We are launching a 6-part online meetup series where we will cover technologies and solutions that can greatly help before, during and after a natural disaster. In fact, this webinar series is a part of Call for Code initiative headed by IBM, The Linux Foundation, UN Human Rights, and American Red Cross. The online meetups are…
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Learn how to build your first cloud function, a 5-minute video.
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Serverless, Function as a Service (FaaS) or just cloud functions allows you to write code that will run in the cloud. You can use a number of different languages such as JavaScript (Node.js), Swift, Python, Java, PHP and others to write the function code. What’s nice is that you don’t need to worry about servers,…
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Marek Sadowski and Maya Reyes from the IBM San Francisco City Team hosted a 4-part webinar series on Containers. They covered Containers, Docker, Kubernetes and Istio. The sessions are short, about 30-minutes. Check out the recordings below. Introduction to Containers Introduction to Docker Introduction to Kubernetes Introduction to Istio Check out our upcoming events on…
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If you are planning to run containerized applications on the IBM Cloud, here are the steps to upgrade your account and create a cluster: Please register for an IBM Cloud account (it’s free!). You can also login if you have an existing account Once you register, click on Catalog (top right menu) Remove the label:lite filter…
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Converting speech or audio to text has a large number of applications and can bring advanced capabilities to applications. Image you are running a call center with thousands of simultaneous calls. You would like to identify some trends/analytics such as if the callers are having problems with a particular product or feature. Or if the callers…
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March 26-27 I attended a Developer Relations conference hosted by Evans Data in Palo Alto, CA. I was a good conference, with great content and speakers. The conference probably had about 100-150 people which I really liked. These are my notes from sessions and keynotes I attended. Again, these are my notes and what I…
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We are running hands-on Containers and Kubernetes training in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 27, 2018. If you are new to Containers, this is a really good workshop you wouldn’t want to miss. Your instructor is Erin McKean who is awesome, she is the founder of Wordnik and loves APIs! After attending the workshop developers will…
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At the end of February IBM hosted its first open developer community conference called Index in San Francisco. At the conference I was helping as a “room captain”. My duties included greeting the speaker, and ensuring the video/audio equipment was running smoothly as all the talks were recorded. Pretty simple 😉. The conference had a number…
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The San Francisco Developer Advocacy team hosted another great Lunch & Learn event. The topic was Kubernetes. The session covered what is Kubernetes, how it works and what are its benefits? The session was lead by Andy Shi and Anthony Amase. Here is what the session covered and then jump to the session video recording.…
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The San Francisco team hosted What is Machine Learning for the Enterprise Lunch-and-Learn event. This event was an absolute beginner’s guide to machine learning for the enterprise. Kanishk Priyadarshi, Head of Engineering and Innovation at IBM, covered strategic and design-thinking inspired conversation for beginners to explore and apply machine learning at your enterprise! In case…
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Last week the IBM Developer Advocates team hosted another Lunch-and-Learn event. Erin McKean covered the OpenAPI spec (formerly known as Swagger), what it is, and how using the spec makes it easier to plan, create, test, and share your APIs? If you missed the event, you can watch the live-streamed version below. The session covered: What…
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In September we hosted another successful Lunch and Learn event. This time we covered Containers 101 (Microservices) and of course we served a delicious lunch. If you are in San Francisco, definitely consider coming to our next free event. Here is what Andy Shi and Anthony Amanse, our in-house Containers experts covered: What is a Container (Microservice), how…
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At the end of August we hosted a Blockchain 101 – Lunch and Learn event in Galvanize in San Francisco. It’s a very informal, easy going, educational lecture on an interesting topic. Our first one was on Blockchain. And of course we provide a delicious lunch. Everyone is talking about Blockchain. You hear about Blockchain…
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We are hosting another technical workshop, this time on how to build your first chatbot. If this sounds interesting please register as space is limited. Description In this technical hands-on workshop you will learn how to build your first chatbot and then integrate it with Slack. In this session you will learn and build: How…
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Learn how to build your first IoT application using Node-RED and IBM Watson Services. This workshop will begin with an introduction to Node-RED, a browser-based graphical flow editor of drag-n-drop blocks (called a node) of functionality. Node-RED (nodered.org) is an open-source community project built on top of the Node.js runtime. The workshop will dive into…
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About four weeks ago I officially became an IBMer! I joined as San Francisco City Lead for Developer Advocacy. Some of you are probably wondering why IBM? IBM is big, slow and boring. IBM is very big but it’s not slow or boring. IBM is over a 100 years old and it has repeatedly reinvented…