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Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by cschmidt »

carlosdp wrote: post #4
650REDHAIR wrote: post #3

It looks neat, but wow, I don't think that registration process could have been any worse. Have any of you HN'ers been accepted into the beta? Thoughts?

I agree, looks like a very cool product, but really? Only alphanumeric, dashes, period, underscore, and @ symbol in password and no spaces? Why? And why not put that information on the form instead of in another link and not say why the password was rejected? Why is there a time limit of a few minutes on the confirmation code? I feel like I have to race the clock in order to register. I wish they had made a separate…

My code didn't come by the end of the countdown. I sat there and watched it tick down for a few minutes. It just arrived, a minute or so late. Great job IBM.

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by dalek2point3 »

IBM actually has a really cool product for live streams of large datasets. Its called infosphere streams -- http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infosphere-stream...

If they dont want to become "just another AWS" they'll have to start integrating some of these features in order to get devs to switch ...

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by cschmidt »

cschmidt wrote: post #11
carlosdp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, looks like a very cool product, but really? Only alphanumeric, dashes, period, underscore, and @ symbol in password and no spaces? Why? And why not put that information on the form instead of in another link and not say why the password was rejected? Why is there a time limit of a few minutes on the confirmation code? I feel like I have to race the clock in order to register. I wish they had made a separate…

My code didn't come by the end of the countdown. I sat there and watched it tick down for a few minutes. It just arrived, a minute or so late. Great job IBM.

Well at least they do approve the beta requests quickly. It seems to be based on http://cloudfoundry.com/, which isn't obvious from their initial landing page.

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by CoffeeDregs »

Interesting. Python support is provided by Heroku build packs?

    To deploy Python applications to BlueMix, use
    $ cf push -b https://github.com/joshuamckenty/heroku-buildpack-python
Also, I don't see any pricing, so that's a little nervous-making.

Nice that you get an 8GB memory allocation to play with, though, shared amongst your various apps.

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by utopkara »

dalek2point3 wrote: post #12

IBM actually has a really cool product for live streams of large datasets. Its called infosphere streams -- http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infosphere-stream... If they dont want to become "just another AWS" they'll have to start integrating some of these features in order to get devs to switch ...

I bet they haven't been sitting on their hands about this :-)

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by AYBABTME »

fennecfoxen wrote: post #10
blakesterz wrote: post #9

So this is a realllly dumb dumb question... but I'll ask anyways, what the heck can I do with this? Build an app, yes, got it, but... what? Like if you said build a wordpress site I'd get it, but what kind of app can I build? to do what? And that app runs on what?

Looks like you can build anything that you could build with java/ruby/node code. And they would launch as many servers as you needed given the amount of traffic that it got. And you'd put the data into a nearby managed database like... Mongo (ew) or Postgres. Not listed: what operating system is running down there (going to guess Linux, since I don't know what building various binary ruby / node modules would actuall…

Funny, I remember a few months ago, an IBM employee at our Ottawa JS meetup explained how he ported Node to PowerPC.

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by johnward »

blakesterz wrote: post #9

So this is a realllly dumb dumb question... but I'll ask anyways, what the heck can I do with this? Build an app, yes, got it, but... what? Like if you said build a wordpress site I'd get it, but what kind of app can I build? to do what? And that app runs on what?

It's similar to other Platform as a Service options. You build the app you want. The benefit is that you don't have to worry about setting up and scaling the architecture. For example you could deploy WordPress on AppFog PaaS. I don't think bluemix officially support PHP but PHP is there. Blue mix supports node or rails. so basically any node or rails app you wanted to build could be hosted.

Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering

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Post by joelennon »

Also check out JazzHub, IBMs entry in the online software tools space. It provides source code management (unfortunately based on Rational Team Concert and not something like Git or Mercurial), agile tools and a decent web based code editor based on Eclipse Orion. It integrates nicely with BlueMix, you can one click deploy from within JazzHub.

I had early access to this so I could write an article for their developerWorks site on using the MEAN (mongo, express, angular and node) stack to build a polls app. The platform's not perfect, but its good to see IBM going in the right direction with this sort of stuff.

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