Application, Web Development and APIs
At The New Builders, we’re always excited to see tools that give developers a chunk of new functionality and present it in a way that’s easy to interact with. Mapbox...Continue reading Putting GeoJSON on the Map with Mapbox and Cloudant
There’s a lot of talk lately about cognitive computing, but seeing examples of how businesses use APIs to create a better experience for their customers makes a big difference. Developers...
Are you ready to cross the innovation threshold? When it comes to technology innovation, you have big aspirations for what you want to achieve. But, you might not have all...Continue reading Beyond imagination to innovation with IBM On Demand Consulting
In this age of digital transformation, the big question is: Are you disrupted or a disruptor? If you are struggling with moving to the cloud, don’t be disrupted. Find your...Continue reading IBM Cloud Advisors: The disruptor’s quick start to the cloud
I was delighted when in August my manager got approval for me to attend JavaOne. It had been some time since I’d been to this important conference, and I looked forward...Continue reading Lessons learned at JavaOne 2016 in San Francisco!
As I’ve been learning about the Connect series from IBM, the phrase “code like a startup, run like an enterprise” has stuck with me. It reminds me of “float like...
When the Rolling Stones released their hit song Get off of my cloud back in 1965, they knew people were anxious to get onto their cloud after their success earlier...Continue reading Hey you! Get your apps onto the cloud with WebSphere Application Server V9
I’m proud to say that I am the first IBM designer with a master badge in Design Thinking and the first user experience designer hired in IBM’s MobileFirst for iOS...Continue reading How we design and deploy enterprise-ready iOS apps in weeks, not months
Not long ago, I wrote a post showing off the new Java development hub and one detailing the return of Brian Goetz as a contributor. This time, I’m going to show...
If developerWorks was a student returning to school this fall, she would have a lot of material to draw from when writing her “What I did this summer” essay. In...Continue reading Know what we did this summer? New Middleware hub and dW Connect to Cloud
Cloud Computing, Containers, and Operating Systems
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard of Docker, or Docker containers, or at the very least the concept of containerization. But as we know all too well, the...Continue reading What is Docker? A Primer on the Benefits of Containers for Applications
There’s a lot of talk lately about cognitive computing, but seeing examples of how businesses use APIs to create a better experience for their customers makes a big difference. Developers...
IBM has announced several new cloud data services and features on its IBM Bluemix platform designed to help organizations accelerate the migration of their data to the cloud and, in...Continue reading New IBM Bluemix Services Accelerate Cloud Data Migration
We’re seeing the rise of a new type of programming culture – a more inclusive, more open environment where even those lacking extensive programming experience or formal qualifications are able...Continue reading [Podcast] Mastering the Force with Bluemix and Watson IoT
Listen to Quetzal's Doug Stewart and Greg Nacu share how they used IBM® Cloudant®, a JSON doc store, to make retail POS development easier.Continue reading [Podcast] NoSQL: The Hottest Trend in Retail Point-of-Sale Systems
Are you ready to cross the innovation threshold? When it comes to technology innovation, you have big aspirations for what you want to achieve. But, you might not have all...Continue reading Beyond imagination to innovation with IBM On Demand Consulting
In this age of digital transformation, the big question is: Are you disrupted or a disruptor? If you are struggling with moving to the cloud, don’t be disrupted. Find your...Continue reading IBM Cloud Advisors: The disruptor’s quick start to the cloud
- IBM and 21Vianet are expanding their partnership to fuel greater cloud innovation in China by incorporating Blockchain, Internet of Things, and advanced cloud data services on the IBM Bluemix platform.
Get four days of intensive education, training and certification during IBM World of Watson 2016 Las Vegas, Nevada, October 24-27. From major keynotes to industry- and role-specific sessions to small...
As I’ve been learning about the Connect series from IBM, the phrase “code like a startup, run like an enterprise” has stuck with me. It reminds me of “float like...
Cognitive, AI, and Robotics
“Watson is going through 1,000,000 documents a week. People can’t do that. You can’t hire enough people to do that.”Continue reading Ginni Rometty’s keynote at FinTech Ideas Festival
Despite the exponential growth in chatbots across various applications and messaging platforms, there are still several challenges to overcome when delivering a successful chatbot. One of the key challenges is...
We are proud to announce that Watson Developer Cloud is releasing for general availability its next generation Visual Recognition base tagging service that greatly expands on its capability to automatically...Continue reading Available Today: New Watson Developer Cloud Visual Recognition Service
With the majority of consumers spending significant time on various messaging platforms, brands are turning to these messaging platforms to better interact with consumers. The increase in private messaging between...Continue reading 10 Steps to Train a Chatbot and its Machine Learning Models to Maximize Performance
We are all living in a deluge of data, yet we have never felt more disconnected from each other. Some governments have made a concerted effort to move towards transparency...
Find out how your business can apply cognitive systems built on cloud to outthink your competitors, keeping pace with the ever-changing landscape, because when your business thinks you can outthink.
As the cognitive computing era evolves and progresses, several cognitive solutions are being developed to tackle a variety of business challenges across multiple industries (Finance, Healthcare, Retail, etc.) and regions...Continue reading 3 steps for building a cognitive solution in 70 days
Technology is growing at an unprecedented pace, which is great for solving some of society’s largest challenges, but makes it tough to keep up with the necessary skills. Gaining market...Continue reading 3 ways to pick up cognitive computing skills on the Learning Lab
For a while now, we’ve been telling you about the first-ever Watson Developer Conference taking place November 9-10, 2016, in San Francisco. But, in case you’ve missed all the hoopla,...
With Watson, the world is getting healthier, safer, cleaner, more creative and even more personal.
Databases, Big Data, and Analytics
Graph databases are rising in popularity among the ranks of NoSQL databases. They allow you to store data as entities (nodes) and relationship (edges), and allow you to query the...Continue reading No More Joins: An Overview of Graph Database Query Languages
Register for the "Analytics for JSON: 3 Use Cases" webinar on Jan. 26 to learn how IBM Cloudant integrates with Apache Spark, IBM dashDB and MapReduce.Continue reading [Webinar] Analytics for JSON: 3 Use Cases on January 26
“Watson is going through 1,000,000 documents a week. People can’t do that. You can’t hire enough people to do that.”Continue reading Ginni Rometty’s keynote at FinTech Ideas Festival
You’ve probably heard of Blockchain. It’s hard to navigate much of the web today without running across some kind of reference to it. After a while I thought, “Could I...Continue reading What is blockchain? A Primer on Distributed Ledger Technology
Imagine how frustrating it would be to purchase something from a web or mobile retail application that didn’t have search functionality. Or how useless a real estate app would be...Continue reading [Webinar] Searching for Search: A guide for application developers
Created by Facebook to power its inbox search feature and used today by both Netflix and Reddit, Apache Cassandra® is a popular open source choice for developers worldwide. Its decentralized...
IBM has announced several new cloud data services and features on its IBM Bluemix platform designed to help organizations accelerate the migration of their data to the cloud and, in...Continue reading New IBM Bluemix Services Accelerate Cloud Data Migration
IBM announced a blockchain project with Singapore fintech startup KYCK! to help enable financial service providers to more rapidly on-board their customers in a secure environment.
Listen to Quetzal's Doug Stewart and Greg Nacu share how they used IBM® Cloudant®, a JSON doc store, to make retail POS development easier.Continue reading [Podcast] NoSQL: The Hottest Trend in Retail Point-of-Sale Systems
Join us for the webinar, "Building and Deploying Graph Models with IBM Graph" on Thursday, November 10, to learn how to approach designing a graph model.Continue reading [Webinar] Building and Deploying Graph Models with IBM Graph
DevOps, Integration and Performance
I remember how excited I was when I got my first TiVO box in 1999. I loved that I could skip commercials (an odd thing to like considering I’m an...Continue reading 15 of the best things to binge-watch on DevOps
Are you ready to cross the innovation threshold? When it comes to technology innovation, you have big aspirations for what you want to achieve. But, you might not have all...Continue reading Beyond imagination to innovation with IBM On Demand Consulting
My eye rolling has increased ever since Pokémon GO released. Throughout the day, and I don’t think there’s been a day without an eye-roll, I hear cries of frustration from...Continue reading If only Pokémon GO had used predictive cloud computing…
In Malcolm Gladwell's 'Blink' he famously recounts the story of art experts who were able to tell within a few seconds of looking at a sculpture that it was a...Continue reading Why feelings are not enough: The importance of measurement in software
Ever wonder what happened to the summer vacation of your youth? From the first of May to the last day of school, I used to cross off the days on...Continue reading A summer reading list for DevOps enthusiasts!
Evaluate your current software delivery approach and get insight and resources to help you achieve maximum DevOps. Take the DevOps self-assessment quiz.Continue reading DevOps. What are you doing with it? Take the quiz
Imagine a place you can find all the patterns and building blocks of how services, code and products can be stitched together to make your perfect app.Continue reading Microservices + Code Architecture cheat sheet: Building blocks for grown-ups
Don't starve your agile pipleline with a high-performing team with nothing to do. Guest blogger Millard Ellingsworth tells you how.Continue reading Tips and tricks to get around your next DevOps chokepoint
Amy Silberbauer announces the release of SAFe 4.0 and walks you through the SAFe methodology.Continue reading Get started with SAFe 4.0 to drive enterprise scaled agile transformations
Internet of Things
Working with Brian Innes, a developer advocate in IBM Watson IoT, developerWorks TV is launching a new show called Hands-on IoT.Continue reading Gain the upper hand with this new developerWorks TV show: Hands-on IoT
IBM has announced a new array of services, industry offerings and capabilities to help startups and developers drive digital information with the Internet of Things. This announcement comes on the...Continue reading IBM offers free access to IBM Watson IoT Platform
We’re seeing the rise of a new type of programming culture – a more inclusive, more open environment where even those lacking extensive programming experience or formal qualifications are able...Continue reading [Podcast] Mastering the Force with Bluemix and Watson IoT
Halloween is the one time out of the year where we welcome all things scary. But what's one scary, uninvited event? Your hacked IoT devices.Continue reading Attacks on Dyn cause major internet disruptions
Because the Internet of Things is really all about the data, to design and develop IoT apps, you need a tool that helps deal with the flow of that data. ...Continue reading Node-RED: The fundamental, easy to use, open-source programming tool for IoT
I don’t know about you, but I do enjoy Weird Al songs. I currently have his “It’s All About the Pentiums” song stuck in my head after reading about the...
The “things” in the Internet of Things is more than wearables or mobile phones, extending to our homes, our cars—and beyond! Recently, developerWorks published a tutorial “Bring IoT home: Connect...Continue reading Connected cars – The ultimate Internet of Things thing
Learn how IBM is creating a revolutionary Blockchain platform to securely record transactions from the Internet of Things (IoT) for your business networkContinue reading IBM Blockchain brings trust and transparency to the Internet of Things
AT&T and IBM are extending their collaboration to the Internet of Things, where they are integrating their capabilities to make it easier for developers to create end-to-end IoT solutions.Continue reading AT&T and IBM: Teaming to Shape the Future of IoT
If you are building cloud-based IoT solutions, you know the importance of machine-to-machine (M2M) connectivity protocols and have probably heard of MQTT. As IoT application development is on the rise,...Continue reading MQTT is the de-facto standard and ISO standard for messaging protocols
Mobile and Gaming
We are at a moment in history where technology, globalization, and our economy is changing so fast. Those changes offer us enormous opportunities but also are very disruptive and unsettling....Continue reading Out-thinking old-school: A vision on engaging the educational community
The ubiquity of apps – on smartphones, in-browser and in wearable devices – has forever altered the way people live and it’s also changing the way they work. As a...Continue reading 8 guidelines for building consumer-like enterprise apps
By developing with an Offline First approach, you’ll build apps that are downtime resistant and are less likely to frustrate your users.Continue reading Offline, online and everywhere in between – The Offline First app design philosophy
I’m proud to say that I am the first IBM designer with a master badge in Design Thinking and the first user experience designer hired in IBM’s MobileFirst for iOS...Continue reading How we design and deploy enterprise-ready iOS apps in weeks, not months
Aly Cabral discusses some of the IBM Ready Apps that she has worked on and how her team uses dW Open to open source their code and interact with developers.
The results are in! 100,000 players applied, but only 208 were chosen to enter the VRMMO world of Sword Art Online in real life. Here is what they experienced.Continue reading Game or reality? Players live to tell in IBM’s VRMMO Sword Art Online Project
After a 3D body scan, VRMMO gamers are transformed into avatars of themselves that live inside "Sword Art Online" for a real life virtual reality experience.Continue reading IBM brings real life VRMMO to “Sword Art Online: The Beginning”
Apple and IBM continue to break new ground with the new open source Watson SDK for mobile Apple iOS developers. Making smartphones smarter!Continue reading Make your smartphone even smarter with the new Watson SDK for iOS developers
IBM Serious Games Lead, Phaedra Boinodiris talks about trends, IBM and gaming, crafty kids and what's next.
Developer News and Education
Some developers think of hackathons as rites of passages. And rightly so. They provide a competitive yet friendly environment where you go up against your peers for prizes. They’re also...Continue reading Tips for succeeding in your first hackathon!
Register for the "Analytics for JSON: 3 Use Cases" webinar on Jan. 26 to learn how IBM Cloudant integrates with Apache Spark, IBM dashDB and MapReduce.Continue reading [Webinar] Analytics for JSON: 3 Use Cases on January 26
“Watson is going through 1,000,000 documents a week. People can’t do that. You can’t hire enough people to do that.”Continue reading Ginni Rometty’s keynote at FinTech Ideas Festival
Hidden Figures is partnering with IBM to uncover and celebrate STEM role models in the upcoming months.Continue reading During the Space Race, NASA’s computers were women #HiddenFigures
We know it takes a lot of effort, determination, and resources to bring an idea to fruition, and transform your hard work into an enterprise even! At IBM, re-inventing ourselves...
Gain deep discounts on admission to O'Reilly, Twilio, Hadoop and more key conferences from IBM when you try out developerWorks Premium, the new all-inclusive developer toolkit subscription made just for...Continue reading Need a promo code for popular IBM and industry developer events?
At The New Builders, we’re always excited to see tools that give developers a chunk of new functionality and present it in a way that’s easy to interact with. Mapbox...Continue reading Putting GeoJSON on the Map with Mapbox and Cloudant
Hi, developers! We all know staying current is hard work. Each month, the developerWorks editors try to make it a little easier for you, by bundling up the best technical...Continue reading Take a Little developerWorks Reading on Your Vacation!
We are proud to announce that Watson Developer Cloud is releasing for general availability its next generation Visual Recognition base tagging service that greatly expands on its capability to automatically...Continue reading Available Today: New Watson Developer Cloud Visual Recognition Service
I would like to take you on an exciting and rewarding personal journey that brings together IBM Watson, the Java community and the Devoxx organization. The journey truly began during...Continue reading My Devoxx Journey: From the UK to Antwerp and soon Devoxx US in San Jose!
Security
Want to read the hottest articles on security? Make sure to check out these reader favorites!Continue reading Check out these reader favorites from the Security zone
Halloween is the one time out of the year where we welcome all things scary. But what's one scary, uninvited event? Your hacked IoT devices.Continue reading Attacks on Dyn cause major internet disruptions
Still have questions about cognitive security? You're in luck! Tune in for a Q&A session with experts.Continue reading Experts answer your questions on cognitive security
Cognitive computing + security = fighting cybercrime? Who would have thought? Read about Watson's new exciting role.Continue reading Watson is adding cybercrime fighting to its resume
We compiled some of the most practical and applicable articles from the developerWorks Security zone. Read up on how to protect websites with context-based access.Continue reading Must-reads from the developerWorks Security zone
Every year the IRS loses billions of dollars to cyber thieves who file bogus tax returns with information acquired from stolen identities.Continue reading IRS to lose over $21 billion in hacked 2016 tax returns
Dinesh Jain gives a guided tour of the new IdentityDev Center, a "one stop shop" for Identity and Access Management specialists.Continue reading IBM launches IdentityDev, a “one stop shop” for IT Identity Management
In partnership with Check Point Software, IBM Security announced an expanded alliance and a broad set of product integrations and increased investment across IBM’s consulting and managed security services.
Most people think of the Apache Libcloud library for Python as a management tool. But, APIs can be used to gather security related information about all the virtual machines under...Continue reading Use Apache libcloud to dig out security info from your VMs





