Today I have gave a presentation at Engage Usergroup in Burgers Zoo, Arnhem. My presentation I was in the emerging technology track to share information about Spring Cloud Stream and how easy it is to connect to a message broker like RabbitMQ or Kafka. Engage 2020: Hello are you listening, There is stream for everything Read More
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Spring Cloud Function on Azure run locally
I am busy with a demo application to show the power of Cloud Functions in general and specific Spring Cloud Function. I was already able to deploy the Demo application on IBM Cloud, next step is to run in it on Azure. Prepare the application I found a very good article by Microsoft which explain Read More
Deploy Spring Cloud Function to IBM Cloud
Lately I was playing around with Spring Cloud Functions by building a small demo application. Locally It runs without any problems. The Spring Cloud team did a great job. Easy to use like most of the Spring Framework projects. Run it on IBM Cloud But why run it locally, it should run in the Cloud. Read More
Speaking (again) at Engage in a Zoo
Today I received a positive confirmation about one of my abstracts for Engage 2020. So after speaking at the Zoo of Antwerp it will be once again in Zoo. Looking forward to meet all the people, see who they are doing. My session Title: Em02. Hello, are you listening! There is stream for everything Abstract The Read More
Congratulations, you’re an IBM Champion (again)!
Yesterday I received an email from IBM with the above subject, especially from Libby Ingrassia. For me it came as unexpected suprise. So I will be an IBM Champion again in 2020. This now for the fourth time in row, but for the sixth time in total. It remains an extreme honour to get such Read More
Spring One Platform as a first timer
Last week it was the first time I attend Spring One Platform conference in Austin. It is the conference all around the Spring Framework. A very vibrant open source framework which coordinates by Pivotal. Road to Austin A friend of my has joined me (again), so we flew on a direct KLM flight to Houston Read More
Going electric
At the end of 2018 we were looking around for a replacement for our Skoda Octavia. A very nice car, but as we are almost commute to work by bicycle and train, the car is a not making lots of kilometers. Then a diesel car not to expensive to have in operation. But what next Read More
5 years as a freelancer
As of today I have my 5 years anniversary as a freelancer How it starts In the beginning of 2014 I was thinking to go freelance. At Lotusphere, or what ever name it has back then, in Orlando I remember I had a short conversation with Stuart McIntyre and later via Skype a longer one Read More
Social Connections 15: New technology track
Social Connections is THE user group event about everything around IBM Connections. This year will be edition 15 in Munich on September 16 and 17. New Technology Track Since last edition, as far I know, there is a new track, New Technology. In this track you can share all your experience about new technology and Read More
The slides of my 2 sessions at NCUG 2019
I had the pleasure to do 2 presentations at NCUG, formerly known as ISBG. It were very technical questions, but was happy that people where brave enough to attend 😉 Spring forward: an introduction to Spring boot and Thymeleaf for (XPages) developers The world of (XPages) developer is moving fast. Customers rethinking platforms and solutions. Spring Read More