BlueMix is IBM's rollout of the open source Cloud Foundry product (I work on Cloud Foundry). You can also check out our own example rollout at run.pivotal.io if you want to see how they stack up.
I 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.<p>That's just my initial thoughts though. Now I need to sit down and actually deploy something to it.<p>At least one aspect was a bit amusing: <a href="http://pic.twitter.com/iPqCk1J3x8" rel="nofollow">http://pic.twitter.com/iPqCk1J3x8</a>
It looks neat, but wow, I don't think that registration process could have been any worse.<p>Have any of you HN'ers been accepted into the beta? Thoughts?
IBM actually has a really cool product for live streams of large datasets. Its called infosphere streams -- <a href="http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infosphere-streams/" rel="nofollow">http://www-03.ibm.com/software/products/en/infosphere-stream...</a><p>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 ...
There's a sample hello world node demo, with a README.md that explains all the bits, here:<p><a href="https://hub.jazz.net/project/pmuellr/bluemix-hello-node/overview" rel="nofollow">https://hub.jazz.net/project/pmuellr/bluemix-hello-node/over...</a><p>The goal with the demo is just to show you how to get node code running on BlueMix; what code (in what language) you run is up to you!
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?
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.<p>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.
Interesting. Python support is provided by Heroku build packs?<p><pre><code> To deploy Python applications to BlueMix, use
$ cf push -b https://github.com/joshuamckenty/heroku-buildpack-python
</code></pre>
Also, I don't see any pricing, so that's a little nervous-making.<p>Nice that you get an 8GB memory allocation to play with, though, shared amongst your various apps.
Simple nodejs app up and running from one of their samples. <a href="http://powernode.ng.bluemix.net/" rel="nofollow">http://powernode.ng.bluemix.net/</a><p>The experience of deploying the Node app on Bluemix is very reminiscent of a Heroku deployment, IMO.
The 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.
What a serious wording fail.<p>"A platform where developers can act like kids in a sandbox"<p>That sounds like they consider play a necessary evil.
Yet another cloud offering with "NSA inside".<p>I'm so desperate for an alternative that I would rather put my data in North Korea if they had a cloud offer.