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Too busy coding to keep up with all the exciting happenings in the Bluemix world? Well don’t worry! This concise post will summarize announcements, videos, and events that Bluemix has been involved in because we understand your busy schedule, but we also know your desire to learn more about Bluemix!
Announcements
- IBM acquires StrongLoop – Helping clients extend their enterprise reach
StrongLoop joins IBM to help companies succeed in connecting mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and next-generation web applications with enterprise data and services in a hybrid cloud environment. - IBM IoT Real-Time Insights – Analytics designed for the Internet of Things
To utilize Internet of Things data effectively to drive business decisions and results, organizations need help processing large amounts of data in real-time and driving real-time actions from that data — enter IBM’s new IoT analytics offering. - Create game-changing mobile apps, win seriously good prizes
The Global Mobile Innovators Tournament gives developers and startups from around the world the opportunity to create game changing mobile applications in return for excellent prizes.
Videos
- IBM Bluemix and StrongLoop: Integration of Instant Runtimes and API Capabilities
This demo shows developers how to set up two Bluemix applications, one with StrongLoop’s LoopBack and Process Manager and the other with StrongLoop’s Arc. - Win with IBM Bluemix
IBM Cloud GM PaaS, Steve Robinson, discusses how enterprises are selecting Bluemix as the tool of choice for new development projects and to deploy applications. - Digital Content Checker on IBM Bluemix
The service quickly examines HTML content or EPUB documents, provides a detailed report of all accessibility violations, and then recommends how to fix the issues. - Automated Accessibility Tester on IBM Bluemix
Automates accessibility reporting and auditing capabilities provides detailed insights of accessibility violations so they can be corrected before your application is deployed. - IBM Bluemix: Mixing voice & data
Video call using the new Twilio video API is held between a customer and a customer service agent using IBM Watson Speech to Text service to transcribe the audio in real time and Alchemy API to calculate feedback sentiment.
Events
- Four reasons to pay attention to Apache Mesos
What a difference a year makes! While MesosCon 2015 was still a relatively small conference, it tripled in size since 2014. The buzz around Mesos has steadily grown and MesosCon demonstrated that clearly. - Answers from #AskBluemix about the Internet of Things
SMEs from the IBM IoT Foundation Development, Support, and Services teams were available to answer questions to #AskBluemix. - Bluemix Office Hours on Periscope
We are very excited about the ability to engage with our current users and discuss the services that they are using with our experts, in order to provide them the feedback they need on a weekly basis. - Connect your iOS 9 app to Bluemix today
Although your app will work with Bluemix without any further updates, there are some ways that the iOS 9 update might affect the functionality of your app.
Top Posts
- Facebook: IBM buys StrongLoop to add Node.js development to its cloud
The deal gives IBM a top player in the application developer software for enterprise sector and, in particular, it focuses on the popular open source programming language Node.js. - Blog: Getting Started with Bluemix and StrongLoop
IBM Bluemix developers Sai Vennam and Ben Smith shows the LoopBack sample application deployed to Bluemix, followed by a demonstration of how to control it via StrongLoop Arc’s Process Manager. - Twitter: Learn how to build your own home alarm system!
Build your own home alarm system via with a RaspberryPi & Node.js. Available via SlideShare.
We’ve Moved! The IBM Cloud Blog Has a New URL
In an effort better integrate the IBM Cloud Blog with the IBM Cloud web experience, we have migrated the blog to a new URL: www.ibm.com/cloud/blog.
Use IBM Cloud Certificate Manager to Obtain Let’s Encrypt TLS Certificates for Your Public Domains
IBM Cloud Certificate Manager now lets you obtain TLS certificates signed by Let’s Encrypt. Let’s Encrypt is an automated, ACME-protocol-based CA that issues free certificates valid for 90 days.
Are You Ready for SAP S/4HANA Running on Cloud?
Our clients tell us SAP applications are central to their success and strategy for cloud, with a deadline to refresh the business processes and move to SAP S/4HANA by 2025. Now is the time to assess, plan and execute the journey to cloud and SAP S/4HANA