Category: Cloud Technologies
Developing a Chat Server and Client in the Cloud
Introduction During the Lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing” I decided to develop a Cloud based Chat Application with the help of IBM’s Bluemix. The Application consists of 3 separate Applications: Chat Server: Allows Clients to connect to it, manages the Chat-Channels/Users and relays messages sent from a client to the other clients in the…
How we integrated IBM Watson services into a Telegram chat bot
Introduction IBMs artificial intelligence ‘Watson’ on the IBM Bluemix platform offers a wide range of cognitive services like image and audio analysis among other things. During our semester project in the lecture ‘Software Development for Cloud Computing’ we integrated useful Watson services into a Telegram chat bot to provide a convenient form of direct access…
How to build an Alexa Skill to get information about your timetable
Introduction With information technology today we can easily get any kind of information someone is interested in. Whether you want to know how the weather will be tomorrow or how to cook your favorite cake, you can find out almost anything today. But as a user it’s getting more important to gain information quickly, and…
Dapp Development on Ethereum
In this blog entry we take a look at how to develop a Dapp (‘decentralized app’) on the Ethereum blockchain network and enhance our development process through Gitlab’s continuous integration (CI) services. It is part of the examination for the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing”. First, all the necessary technologies to develop a Dapp…
Building an HdM Alexa Skill – Part 2
We present our own HdM Alexa Skill and share the experience we gained throughout this project. This time: Decisions, Developed Modules and Implementation.
Building a HdM Alexa Skill – Part 1
We present our own HdM Alexa Skill and share the experience we gained throughout this project.
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Lessons Learned – Part 8
Looking back at 4 months of intensive work on our project “SocialCloud” we gathered a lot of experiences and learned many things regarding teamwork, cloud infrastructure and about the difficulties of creating and designing a web application from scratch. Read this blogpost to be prepared for your next big project!
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – HumHub and the humming begins – Part 7
The background Locally organized voluntary groups, helping refugees manage their first steps in Germany, are often organized by mass-email with up to 50 recipients. So the huge amount of received emails which should be clarified ends up in a “answer all”-flood of every involved mailbox. Another realistic misbehaviour is that images are sent uncompressed as…
Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System EngineeringSocialCloud – Configure all the things! – Part 6
One of the requirements of the system is that organizations should be able to set up and deploy the HumHub system on their own. For this purpose, we have designed the Configtool. To meet this requirement we have to use different tools, procedures and interfaces from Bluemix. In the following we would like to introduce…
- Allgemein, Cloud Technologies, Scalable Systems, Student Projects, System Designs, System Engineering
SocialCloud – Cloudy this morning … and we’re scaling – Part 5
Cloud computing has so much potential that the possibilities seem to be endless. Without knowing much about it the cloud looks like a magic place for many people. To give you a more detailed explanation we sum up the design process of our cloud application step by step in the following blog post. Without giving…
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