Innovative ideas rarely, if ever, come from happenstance. Transformational solutions come from centering on the customer, their problem, and little else. When you think about a recipe for success, you …
Call for Code winner Agrolly expands to new countries, helping small farmers stay a step ahead of climate change
Since winning the Call for Code Global Challenge in October 2020, the Agrolly team has been hard at work on improving, scaling, and expanding the scope of their farming technology …
Run WebSphere Liberty and Open Liberty on Microsoft Azure
Looking to modernize your existing Enterprise Java applications and move them to the Microsoft Azure Cloud? Deciding on the approach to develop and deploy your next generation cloud-native application on …
The Zowe project: Build open source with open source
One of the most exciting open source projects for IBM Z is Zowe, which is part of the Linux Foundation’s Open Mainframe Project. Zowe has a unique characteristic that makes …
Data and AI applications with Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data
Palantir for IBM Cloud Pak for Data enables customers to build no-/low-code line-of-business applications using data and AI models from IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Ontology managers can define business-oriented …
Build Smart on Kubernetes World Tour: Back for 2021!
Kubernetes is one of the fastest-growing open source projects in history, and growth is accelerating. Adoption continues to soar among companies that employ them. In fact, more than 1,500 companies …
Istio adoption at Sberbank: Viewpoints from the international project team
In 2018, Sberbank initiated a project, codenamed SberSynapse (referred to as Synapse hereafter), to develop a robust integration architecture for their banking application. Their goal was to build a cloud-native …
10 questions for modernizing your old Java applications
I recently open sourced an application modernization sample, which demonstrates how to modernize an old (2010) Java EE application to become a modern (2021) cloud-native application. In this sample, I …
Kafka Monthly Digest – February 2021
This is the 37th edition of the Kafka Monthly Digest! In this edition, I’ll cover what happened in the Apache Kafka community in February 2021. For last month’s digest, see …
Is your Cloud infrastructure securely configured?
The trend toward deploying security as part of the DevOps process has been shifting left the security and compliance processes. The DevSecOps practices have introduced processes to inspect application-code, Docker, …