Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
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Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
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Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#2Nice to see IBM getting in the game with some tools that aren't dauntingly enterprisey
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#3It 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?
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#4It 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 registration that matched the actual product's less-corporate style.
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#5It 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 got approved for the Beta ~5 minutes after applying, so it seems like it's a pretty quick turnaround.
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#6I had my registration to the beta accepted within less than a minute. The interface is impressively slick. I honestly didn't know IBM had it in them but they did a really nice job on it.
That's just my initial thoughts though. Now I need to sit down and actually deploy something to it.
At least one aspect was a bit amusing: http://pic.twitter.com/iPqCk1J3x8
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#7It 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…
Still saner than this http://i.imgur.com/hvyziAx.png (USCIS password requirement).
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#8The screenshots need to be enlargable. No point of showing a tiny screesnshot if I couldn't enlarge the picture. Anyway, eagerly awaiting for approval. I supposed this is IBM's effort of openstack for 2-3 years.
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#9So 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?
Re: Codename: BlueMix – IBM's New PaaS Offering
#10So 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 actually look like on AIX :P)