Category: Scalable Systems
Sport data stream processing on IBM Bluemix: Real Time Stream Processing Basics
New data is created every second. Just on Google the humans preform 40,000 search queries every second. By 2020 Forbes estimate 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human on our planet. However, it is about collecting and exchanging data, which then can be used in many different ways. Equipment…
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…
IoT with the Raspberry Pi – Final application – Part 3
In our final application, we have put together a solution consisting of four different modules. First, we have again the Raspberry Pi which raises and sends the sensor data using the already presented Python script. We changed the transfer protocol in the final application to MQTT, which gives us more possibilities in different aspects, but…
IoT with the Raspberry Pi – Node RED – Part 2
As already stated in the introduction to our project, we decided to create a Cloud Foundry-Application in IBM Bluemix. We used the boilerplate called “Internet of Things Platform Starter”. Using this boilerplate Node Red is deployed initially. Node Red is a software tool for graphical dataflow programming. It was developed by IBM and is open…
IoT with the Raspberry Pi – Part 1
Introduction to the project As part of the lecture “Software Development for Cloud Computing” in summer term 2017 we primarily wanted to work on a project that has something to do with the Internet of Things. In more detail we decided to measure air quality using a Raspberry Pi with the MQ135 Gas sensor and…
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…
Choosing the correct build system for your game project
In this blog entry we take a look at Travis CI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI and Buildbot and evaluate their benefits and downsides when trying to build a content heavy project with it (e.g. games).
Continuous Integration with Travis CI and Amazon Webservices
Introduction In the the course Software Engineering and Management and Interactive Media at Stuttgart Media University, we launched an interactive web application called Emoji College. www.emoji.college The following blog entry is a brief description of what is going on in this project. The main focus relies on the implementation of a continuous integration pipeline with…
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