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2026 (26)- Monday, May 4, 2026 - Why Sovereignty, Why Now (MongoDB EMEA Public Sector) (featured)For two decades "the cloud" was a verb. In 2026 it became a question of jurisdiction. NIS2, DORA, the Data Act, and the EU AI Act turned data sovereignty from policy debate into structural design constraint. A short essay on why this moment is different, why MongoDB Atlas and sovereign infrastructure are not the same object, and why architects in regulated EMEA enterprises cannot postpone the decision any longer.
- Monday, April 27, 2026 - Turkiye Sovereignty and the Shift Beyond Europe (MongoDB EMEA Public Sector)Türkiye’s first hyperscale cloud region is not just infrastructure. It shows that sovereignty is becoming a design principle shaping how nations build and control their digital stack.
- Thursday, April 23, 2026 - The Space Between Sounds (Notes) (essay)Vinyl and high-resolution streaming seem like opposite worlds. But when the system gets out of the way, they start to converge. Not in sound. In space.
- Thursday, April 23, 2026 - The Great Reorg: The End of Organizations as We Know Them (Notes) (essay)AI is not simply accelerating work. It may be reshaping how organizations are structured, how decisions flow, and how coordination happens. What is emerging is not just efficiency. It looks closer to a structural shift.
- Friday, March 20, 2026 - Understanding the Search Layer in MongoDB: Observability and Diagnostics in Practice (Data & AI) (platforms)A practical exploration of MongoDB Search, focusing on how the search layer operates, why observability matters, and how to approach diagnostics in modern architectures.
- Tuesday, March 17, 2026 - Beyond Hyperscalers: MongoDB Offerings Across Europe’s Sovereign Clouds (MongoDB EMEA Public Sector)A practical map of MongoDB offerings across Europe’s sovereign cloud providers. Explore where MongoDB is available, how it is delivered, and access direct links to deploy it across DBaaS, Kubernetes, and managed platforms.
- Friday, March 6, 2026 - Understanding the European Digital Stack: Sovereignty, Hyperscalers and the Data Platform Layer (MongoDB EMEA Public Sector)As Europe debates digital sovereignty, the real challenge is architectural. The emerging European Digital Stack combines identity systems, secure data exchange, cloud infrastructure and AI platforms. At the center of this ecosystem sits a critical but often overlooked component: the data platform layer.
- Tuesday, March 3, 2026 - Beyond Code Translation: Why Your COBOL Modernization Should Skip the Relational Trap (MongoDB EMEA Public Sector) (mainframe)Forget the double migration. Use AI-driven semantic analysis to leap directly from Mainframe to document-oriented architectures. For decades, COBOL modernization followed a cautious two-step choreography. First, move the data from the Mainframe into a relational database. Second, refactor the application into modern services, embracing the principles of mainframe modernization. This transformation is essential in the...
- Monday, March 2, 2026 - Anthropic’s New AI Can Write 60-Year-Old COBOL Code (Data & AI)AI can now generate and interpret legacy COBOL, but the real impact is not code replacement. The shift is economic and architectural. This analysis explains where AI truly accelerates modernization and where the hard risks still live
- Friday, February 27, 2026 - MongoDB Data Modeling: The Truth About Relationships, Data Duplication, and Performance (Data & AI)MongoDB Data Modeling: The Shift to an Application-First Mindset Most data models don’t break in development. When considering MongoDB Data Modeling, it’s crucial to adapt your approach based on application requirements. They break under real workload pressure. This is especially true for MongoDB Data Modeling, where performance can be directly influenced by data design. Modern...
- Friday, February 20, 2026 - From Developer to AI Supervisor (Notes) (essay)When AI writes the code, the real job moves somewhere else Something quiet but structural is happening in software engineering. Developers are not disappearing.They are being repositioned. Across teams using Cursor, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Gemini and Codex, a consistent pattern is emerging. The act of writing code is no longer the bottleneck. The...
- Sunday, February 15, 2026 - From Legacy Silos to Single View in the Public Sector (MongoDB EMEA Public Sector)Public institutions accumulate legacy silos over decades, fragmenting the representation of the citizen across systems. This article explores how an entity-centric Single View architecture, built on MongoDB, transforms integration from runtime joins into a persistent operational model for the Public Sector.
- Friday, February 13, 2026 - Scaling MongoDB to 100K+ Writes per Second (Data & AI) (mongodb)Sustaining 100K+ writes per second in MongoDB is not a tuning trick — it is an architectural decision. This article breaks down how to design a sharded cluster using realistic Atlas hardware (32GB RAM, 8 CPU, standard storage) and achieve linear horizontal scaling through deterministic shard key distribution, clean write paths, and disciplined index strategy.
- Wednesday, February 4, 2026 - Gödel, Escher, Bach: learning to think by walking in circles (Notes) (ai)Some books are not meant to be read linearly. They pull you into a recursive journey where music, art, and mathematics begin to speak the same language. Gödel, Escher, Bach is one of those rare works that teaches you not what to think, but how thinking itself folds back on itself.
- Monday, February 2, 2026 - Data Quality by Design (Data & AI) (featured, golden-record, mongodb)Data quality is not a downstream fix. It is a structural property of the system. Only when data management decisions converge into a Golden Record does quality become measurable, explainable, and governable over time.
- Saturday, January 31, 2026 - AI Tools, Agents, and the Future of Software Development (Data & AI)AI tools and agents are reshaping software development by transforming how legacy systems are modernized. Rather than focusing on code generation alone, Generative AI enables deeper understanding of existing applications, data, and dependencies. By combining AI agents, structured analysis, and modern data platforms, organizations can accelerate legacy modernization, reduce risk, and evolve complex systems continuously instead of relying on costly, one-time rewrites.
- Saturday, January 31, 2026 - Governance Is Not a Checkbox (Notes)Governance is not paperwork or a one-time decision. It’s what remains when systems disagree, assumptions decay, and time forces truth to be renegotiated.
- Thursday, January 29, 2026 - Master Data Management and Golden Records (Data & AI) (golden-record, mongodb)Master Data Management is not about consolidating records or choosing a system of record. It is about defining how truth is constructed when systems disagree. This monograph presents a production-grade MDM pattern based on attribute-centric Golden Records, explicit governance, and temporal versioning. From ingestion to conflict resolution, it shows how truth is composed, explained, and preserved over time in real enterprise architectures.
- Monday, January 26, 2026 - Data Modeling Beyond Tables: A Talk from MongoDB.local Milano 2025 (Data & AI) (essay, no-sql)A recorded talk from MongoDB.local Milano 2025 on how data modeling changes when applications, not tables, drive design decisions. Real-world MongoDB patterns, trade-offs, and lessons from production systems
- Saturday, January 24, 2026 - The Smartphone Is Becoming the Only Computer You’ll Ever Need (Notes)The smartphone is no longer a companion device. It has quietly become the center of our digital life, absorbing the role once reserved for laptops and desktops. As computing moves to the cloud, the most important computer is the one that is always with you.
- Friday, January 23, 2026 - ai.mongodb.com: AI, this time, is not an add-on. It’s a place. (Data & AI) (featured)ai.mongodb.com is more than a URL. It marks the moment when AI stops orbiting the database and becomes a first-class place inside the MongoDB platform
- Friday, January 16, 2026 - Production AI with MongoDB: From AI Demos to Real Systems (Data & AI) (ai, mongodb, platforms)AI is no longer the hard part. What breaks systems is everything around it: memory, retrieval, cost, reliability, and the gap between demos and production. This piece explores why Production AI fails in practice, and how MongoDB is quietly removing friction where real systems usually collapse.
- Friday, January 9, 2026 - Some Things Change. Some Things Never Do | Software Systems (Data & AI) (essay)Experience with software systems reveals that complexity rarely comes from technology itself, but from how data, automation, and ownership scale without shared architectural intent.
- Tuesday, January 6, 2026 - MongoDB MCP Server: Why Model Context Protocol Matters (Data & AI) (mcp-server, mongodb, platforms)Artificial intelligence is moving fast. Too fast, in many cases, for the data architectures beneath it. Large Language Models can reason, summarize, generate, and persuade. What they still struggle with is grounding: working reliably with real, live, governed data systems without guessing, hallucinating, or breaking operational boundaries. This is exactly the gap that Model Context...
- Saturday, January 3, 2026 - Agentic AI and the Rise of Structured Intelligence (Data & AI) (ai, essay)Agentic AI is reshaping how intelligent systems are built, not by replacing architecture, but by making it essential again. A long-form perspective on autonomy, data platforms, and why structured intelligence is the real path forward.
- Tuesday, December 30, 2025 - Designing AI Agents That Actually Work in the Real World (Data & AI) (ai)Why most AI agents fail in production and how to design them properly.
- Sunday, December 28, 2025 - Arcana: Grounded AI for Real-World Systems (Data & AI) (ai, arcana, featured)Arcana is a grounded AI knowledge engine built on real-world data architectures, designed to support reliable, explainable, and sustainable AI systems.
- Friday, August 22, 2025 - A Modern Big Data Architecture for Scalable Data Processing (Data & AI) (bigdata, cloud, internet-of-things)Modern big data architectures are no longer about scale, but about change. This article explores how composable, workload-aware data systems are designed today, focusing on architectural patterns that support analytics, AI, and operational intelligence without collapsing under complexity.
- Monday, September 18, 2023 - How Generative AI is Transforming Human-Computer Interaction (Data & AI)The history of artificial intelligence has been marked by successive breakthroughs – beating humans at chess in the 1990s, IBM’s Watson winning Jeopardy in 2011, AI programs mastering the game Go beyond human capabilities in 2016. Each milestone provoked astonishment at abilities once thought impossible for computers. The latest feat may be the most astonishing yet...
- Friday, September 15, 2023 - The Evolution of Data Search: Keywords, Meaning, and Intelligence (Data & AI) (data-search, mongodbatlas)How search evolved from pattern matching to meaning, and what changes when retrieval becomes part of the system architecture.
- Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - Best MongoDB Atlas Features in 2025: Essential Architecture Insights for a New World (Data & AI) (mongodb, platforms)An architectural analysis of MongoDB Atlas new features: performance, time series scalability, workload governance, security, and AI-ready data platforms in real-world systems.
- Thursday, September 23, 2021 - My Home Office Setup: Wired, Audio, and Video (Notes)A real-world home office setup focused on wired connectivity, reliable audio and video, and long working hours from home.
- Tuesday, November 19, 2019 - Driving Digital Transformation with ServiceNow (Notes) (ai, low-code, now-platform)The digital economy is integrating itself into every aspect of today’s business environment. ServiceNow is rapidly accelerating digital transformation within the enterprises. Digital technologies are changing the world, how organisations interact, how people work within them, how consumers buy products and services. Mobile, Data & AI, Analytics, Cloud are disruptors of enterprise IT, and now...
- Tuesday, July 16, 2019 - Virtual Machines vs Containers vs Serverless Computing (Data & AI) (platforms, serverless, virtual-machine)In this article, I compare virtual machines, containers, and serverless computing from a real-world architecture perspective. What are Virtual Machines? VMs work by operating on top of a hypervisor, which is, in turn, is stacked up on top of either a host machine or the hardware host. A hypervisor can either be a piece of...
- Monday, June 10, 2019 - The five levels of cloud maturity (Data & AI) (aws, cloud, hybrid-cloud)Most people think of cloud migration as a lift-and-shift operation simply moving applications that are running in a company’s data center into the cloud, but real cloud success requires much more than lift-and-shift. By my experience here are the five levels of cloud maturity: 1 Experimenting: What is the cloud? This first step is the...
- Saturday, May 4, 2019 - Artificial intelligence in video games (Data & AI) (ai, artificial-intelligence, fun, gaming)Gaming has become a global industry making billions. Video games as an industry sometimes overtakes Hollywood, both in spending and in profits. The most fascinating area of advancing tech in gaming is Artificial Intelligence (AI) (you may be interested to “A brief history of AI“) Most video games as racing games, shooting games and strategy...
- Sunday, February 3, 2019 - Marshmello makes history with first ever Fortnite in-game concert (Notes) (games, music)The in-game Marshmello event in Fortnite looks to have been a huge success with players from all around the world getting the chance to attend one of the biggest virtual concerts ever. Marshmello event in Fortnite A live concert inside a video game feels like the future, Millions of people are thought to have tuned...
- Thursday, February 1, 2018 - Artificial Intelligence: Computer Vision (Data & AI) (ai, visual-recognition)The technological revolution continues to surprise us day after day! Today, one can give “eyes and a brain” to a computer. This concept is known today as Cognitive Computing. Indeed, computers might not possess cognitive abilities, but they are capable of executing operations which completely rely on human perceptions. It’s always possible to use the...
- Monday, November 27, 2017 - The Best Classic Arcade Games of the 1980s (Notes) (gaming)A personal journey through the best classic arcade games of the 1980s. From Ghosts ’n Goblins to Arkanoid, a curated Top 10 that defined the golden age of arcades, gameplay, and design.
- Tuesday, November 14, 2017 - Ikigai in the Age of Code: Meaning, Work, and the Beautiful Addiction to Building (Notes)Ikigai is often translated as “a reason for being,” but that translation is too polite for the modern world. In contemporary society, especially in technology, ikigai is less about serene balance and more about tension: between passion and exhaustion, meaning and obsession, freedom and self-imposed pressure. Originally rooted in Japanese culture, ikigai described the quiet...
- Monday, September 4, 2017 - AI is the New Black (Data & AI) (ai)Do you remember when Orange was the New Black? Now AI is everywhere. Every article has AI in the title, every product is powered by AI, every solution is based on an artificial intelligence capability, every friend, collegue, partner, customer talk about AI. AI is not new, I had the pleasure of studying Artificial Intelligence...
- Monday, June 12, 2017 - Xbox One X: Microsoft’s Most Powerful Console Redefines 4K Gaming (Notes) (gaming, microsoft)A real-world look at Xbox One X, Microsoft’s most powerful console, unveiled at E3 2017. From raw GPU power and 4K gaming to performance comparisons and launch expectations.
- Tuesday, May 23, 2017 - Microsoft loves Linux (Data & AI) (cloud, linux)Few year ago Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said “Microsoft Loves Linux” during an event in San Francisco. This is not love at first sight. Modern IT is powered by Linux and Open Source technologies. Microsoft wants to be the leader of this world so we are playing nice with technology beating as the heart...
- Friday, April 28, 2017 - A brief history of AI (Notes) (ai)Artificial Intelligence is not just about algorithms or machines that calculate faster than humans. At its core, AI attempts to capture something far more subtle: the intuitive process by which the mind selects meaning from overwhelming complexity. From ancient myths of intelligent artifacts to modern computational systems, the history of AI reflects a long human effort to understand intelligence by trying to build it.
- Sunday, March 5, 2017 - The future of shopping: emotion tracking meets retail (Data & AI) (visual-recognition)The advancements and speed of technology innovation are catapulting the retail industry forward into an exciting new future. Using the latest innovations as AI technology, machine learning, cognitice services, mixed reality, you can put your customers at the center of your business. A new way to engage your customer is now possible and new capabilities to transform...
- Tuesday, February 7, 2017 - Ubuntu bash on Windows 10 (Data & AI)Microsoft is changing a lot in the last years, the company is committed to integrating SSH into Windows, SQL Server would be soon available on Linux, Azure is the best cloud platform to run open source and Ubuntu shell runs on Windows 10 and that makes me very very happy 🙂 Microsoft working hard to...
- Friday, January 27, 2017 - So long IBM and thanks for all the fish (Notes)After 16 exciting and very rewarding years at IBM I left my badge at reception today. Thanks to my teams, friends and family for making these years so remarkable. I will embark now on a new journey as Digital Advisor at Microsoft, It is a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity of working...
- Wednesday, January 11, 2017 - Mood music station based on emotions and Spotify (Data & AI) (music)Music can have a profound effect on the human psyche. Music is undeniably important in shaping moods, and, likewise, certain frames of mind require certain kinds of songs. There are several websites with feature mood searches, they are able to filter songs by emotions and activities sites for finding the perfect songs to suit your...
- Monday, December 19, 2016 - Applying Visual Recognition to Real-World Enterprise Scenarios (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red, platforms, watson)A practical proof of concept showing how visual recognition can modernize traditional enterprise processes. From quality control to fleet damage detection, this project demonstrates how AI-driven image classification turns real-world scenarios into automated, reliable systems.
- Wednesday, December 14, 2016 - Virtual IoT device (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, node-red)After one month of intense activities on Customer site and Conferences in which I talked about Watson and Watson IoT, I come back on my blog 🙂 For now I am having so much fun with Node-Red and I would like to share with you the Virtual IoT device nodes. It’s a very useful and...
- Tuesday, August 9, 2016 - Watson GO – free to play image and location based game (Data & AI) (bluemix, fun, gaming, node-red, social-network, visual-recognition, watson)Pokemon Go is now everywhere, like an inescapable fog. Why did this happen? Who knows? Maybe it was the horrific week of events that preceded its US launch, leading to some sort of mass psychological phenomenon of escapism. Maybe it’s the way viral trends seem to explode all the time, lately. Maybe it combines family-friendly,...
- Thursday, July 28, 2016 - Asset Management and IoT scenarios (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, internet-of-things, maximo, node-red)It is been very busy days since I worked for Watson IoT Receptionist BOT, so I’m sorry for such a delay with posts. After a quite successful demo live in IBM Rome reception, I worked hard for some Customer demos during these weeks and above all I’m working with a new team to an online...
- Sunday, July 17, 2016 - Watson IoT Receptionist BOT (Data & AI) (bluemix, fun, internet-of-things, node-red, raspberry, watson)In this article I’m presenting the Watson IoT Receptionist BOT, It has been developed within the Watson IoT IBM Rome-Lab initiatives. Alessandro Imparato (in the picture) has just joined to my team that has developed the idea, Alessandro has worked on the device image acquisition and IoT devices configuration, he has shared with so much...
- Tuesday, July 5, 2016 - Glass type detection using Watson visual recognition (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, maximo, visual-recognition, watson)In my previous article I designed and implemented a simple Proof of Concept to offers a pattern recognition solutions for automatic quality control in production processes. The IBM Watson feature extraction and machine learning techniques are used to design classification systems for a variety of image-based inspection tasks. In this second part of PoC I’ve...
- Wednesday, June 29, 2016 - Watson visual recognition for quality control in production lines (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, maximo, node-red, visual-recognition, watson)Globalization and worldwide competition impose new challenges on the quality and cost of production lines. Based on IBM Watson Visual Recognition service I designed and implemented a simple Proof of Concept to offers a pattern recognition solutions for automatic quality control in production processes. The IBM Watson feature extraction and machine learning techniques are used...
- Saturday, June 25, 2016 - Automatically classifies tickets based on Watson Tone Analyzer Service (Data & AI) (bluemix, ibm-control-desk, maximo, watson)In this article I’m presenting a Proof Of Concept (POC) to use IBM Watson as support to IBM Control Desk. My idea is to use IBM Watson to classify a Service Request in terms of internal priority based on emotional tone of request. I used the Tone Analyzer to calculate the scores for various emotions...
- Saturday, June 11, 2016 - Hyper-relevant tweets based on Watson Alchemy Data News (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red, watson)On my previous post on the Hyper-relevant data topic I’ve used the AlchemyData News services to update my telegram channel The AlchemyData News indexes near 300k English language news and blog articles every day with historical search available for the past 60 days. You can query the News API directly with no need to acquire,...
- Wednesday, June 8, 2016 - Connecting a SensorTag to the IBM Watson IoT Platform Using a Raspberry Pi as a Gateway (Data & AI) (internet-of-things, node-red, platforms, raspberry, ti-sensortag)Learn how to connect a SensorTag to IBM Watson IoT Platform using a Raspberry Pi as a Bluetooth LE gateway. This step-by-step guide covers BlueZ installation, Node.js setup, device registration, and real-world IoT architecture patterns.
- Friday, June 3, 2016 - Connect Sensor Tag to Watson IoT platform using a MacBook as gateway (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, node-red, ti-sensortag)In one of my first post I connected my Texas Instrument SensorTag to Watson IoT platform. I was able to catch the environment temperature, the environment light and the air pressure and display data on a web dashboard. Currently the Sensor Tag doesn’t have Wi-Fi (coming soon) and it needs an IoT gateway. Texas Instruments...
- Friday, May 27, 2016 - Introducing the AlchemyData newsbot on Telegram (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red, watson)“Time spent messaging has surpassed time spent on social networks.” Chat platforms such as WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook Messenger and WeChat already reach billions people worldwide, the current big idea is to distribute and engage on the platforms that already have tens or hundreds of millions engaged. So while many companies are launching newsbot on Telegram,...
- Friday, May 20, 2016 - Cooking Temperatures for Beef with IBM Watson IoT platform (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, internet-of-things, node-red)The secret to perfect meat every time is a meat thermometer. My wife told me to buy a thermometer to check the cooking temperature, but I think that cooking temperature for beef with IBM Watson IoT platform is much more funny 🙂 There are many projects around the web regarding this topic, but my idea...
- Monday, May 16, 2016 - How to load Maximo meter readings via IBM Watson IoT platform (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, internet-of-things, maximo, node-red)The best way to approach to the IoT world it’s for fun , the other way to approach to the IoT is to connect devices and build applications that learn from the physical world and analyze data from any source. The IBM Watson IoT platform scaling through cloud-based services and using rich analytics, it provides...
- Friday, May 13, 2016 - Using a Telegram BOT to create Service Request tickets (Data & AI) (bluemix, ibm-control-desk, maximo, node-red)Smartphone’s users have condensed their time into just a handful of favourite apps, social apps and maybe few games. Many developers are now looking to chat bots as another route to making mobile software that people might actually use, and one day even pay for. There are thousands of chat bots on Telegram, the chat...
- Friday, May 6, 2016 - Ultrasonic garage parking assistant with ESP8266 and IBM Watson IoT platform (Data & AI) (arduino, bluemix, esp8266, fun, internet-of-things, iot, node-red, watson)Parking cars in garages can be a challenge when you’re in a hurry, or your new car or garage is just a bit too tight. I accepted my wife’s suggestion to create a system to help her to parking. My wife has a car without parking sensors. So I built a simple ultrasonic garage parking...
- Wednesday, May 4, 2016 - ESP8266 and the Moment IoT Became Accessible (Data & AI) (embedded-systems, esp8266, iot, watson)Before IoT platforms became enterprise infrastructure, low-cost devices like the ESP8266 made cloud-connected hardware accessible to anyone. A look back at the moment when embedded systems, Wi-Fi, and cloud services first converged.
- Friday, April 29, 2016 - Raspberry Pi as managed device to IBM Watson IoT Platform (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, raspberry, watson)In my previous post I connected a Raspberry Pi to IBM Watson IoT platform now I’m going to show a Raspberry Pi as managed device to IBM Watson IoT Platform I my first prototype I used the Quickstart connection to connect the device to platform and the steps are very very simple. To explore and...
- Sunday, April 24, 2016 - Building intelligent Telegram BOTs with IBM Watson (Data & AI) (bluemix, fun, iot, node-red, watson)In this post I’m going to talk about how building intelligent Telegram BOTs with IBM Watson using Bluemix and nodeRED. Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. With Telegram, you can send messages, photos, videos and files and you can create groups. Telegram is like...
- Monday, April 18, 2016 - Connect a Raspberry Pi to IBM IoT platform (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, node-red, raspberry, watson)The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a desktop computer to do, from browsing the internet and playing high-definition video, to making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games and it has...
- Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank demo (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, iot, maximo, watson)IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank demo Can IBM’s Watson replace the human operator ? Can IBM’s Watson to resolve a service request without the human assistance ? In IBM Control Desk service request scenario the Customer support finds quick answers for customers from your growing set of answer documents asking to Watson. I tested the...
- Monday, April 11, 2016 - IBM Watson Retrieve and Rank service (Data & AI) (bluemix, ibm-control-desk, iot, watson)Staged annually at IBM Client Center in Rome-Italy, LabArt is the leading event for the cloud and cognitive solutions, presenting a diverse range of IBM cloud services for IoT, Bluemix and Watson to customers and business partners. I will participate as tech expert and this post reflects what I will show during the event. I...
- Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - Internet Of Things with Android (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, node-red, watson)Internet Of Things with Android In this article I’m showing you how turns your Android phone into a IoT device. I used the IoT Starter application, it is an application for interacting with the IBM Internet of Things Foundation. The application turns your mobile device into a sensor that publishes and receives data to and from...
- Friday, March 11, 2016 - IBM Insights for Weather API (Data & AI) (bluemix, iot, node-red, watson)I bet you’re wondering: Why would IBM, supplier of mainframe computers and software, acquire The Weather Company ? data !The Weather Company already moved its weather data to IBM’s cloud computing platform, then IBM can simply own it and do what it wants. Moreover Weather Company will be part of Watson Internet of things unit,...
- Thursday, March 3, 2016 - Maximo real-time meter data from IoT device (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, maximo, ti-sensortag, watson)Maximo real-time meter data from IoT device In my previous article I shown how automate meter reading from an IoT sensor device. I used the sensorTag to monitor my room’s temperature, so I created a Maximo location associated to my room. In this article I’m showing you how to display in Maximo the real time...
- Wednesday, February 24, 2016 - Maximo asset meter reading and Internet of Things (Data & AI) (bluemix, internet-of-things, iot, maximo, node-red, ti-sensortag, watson)Maximo asset meter reading and Internet of Things In my previous article I shown how to connect my Texas Instrument SensorTag to the cloud. I was able to catch the environment temperature, the environment light and the air pressure and I displayed the real-time data on a web dashboard. In this article I’m showing you...
- Sunday, February 14, 2016 - Create a Maximo Work-Order from an IoT device (Data & AI) (internet-of-things, maximo, node-red, ti-sensortag)Maximo Work-Order from an IoT device In my previous article I shown how to connect my Texas Instrument SensorTag to the cloud. I was able to catch the environment temperature, the environment light and the air pressure and I displayed the real-time data on a web dashboard. In this article I’m showing you how to...
- Monday, February 8, 2016 - Internet of Things on Bluemix (Data & AI) (bluemix, devops, internet-of-things, node-red, ti-sensortag)Internet of Things on Bluemix By 2020 there will be 50 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it’s a very huge number and I’m very happy to belong to the IBM’s Internet of Things division. In this article I’m showing you how to manage an IoT device on IBM Bluemix cloud platform. In details I’m...
- Wednesday, February 3, 2016 - Node-RED (Data & AI) (bluemix, node-red)Node-RED is a tool for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways. Node-RED is based on Node.js, the applications run as a web server, and you customize and manipulate functional “flows” from any computer’s browser, local or remote. Every Node-RED application consists of nodes which are linked together to...
- Friday, January 15, 2016 - IBM Maximo is now integrated with Google Hangouts (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, maximo)IBM Maximo is now integrated with Google Hangouts: In this article I’m showing you how to embed Google Hangsout into a IBM Maximo application, for example in the Service Request Self Service application. Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes instant messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features. The most successful...
- Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - My first Internet experience (Data & AI) (fun)My first internet experience was back in 1996, a few years after the internet was made accessible to the public. I had always been fascinated with computers. I took my first computer on 1982, it was a Commodore VIC 20. I had fun with the entire Commodore family, I played with the Commodore 16, Commodore...
- Monday, January 11, 2016 - IBM Bluemix overview (Data & AI) (bluemix)In this article I’m presenting an IBM Bluemix overview. IBM Bluemix is the IBM open cloud platform that provides mobile and web developers access to IBM software for integration, security, transaction, and other key functions, as well as software from business partners. The most distinctive services on Bluemix are based on IBM Watson: a cognitive...
- Thursday, January 7, 2016 - IBM Alchemy Sentiment Analysis (Data & AI) (watson)In this article I’m presenting a new member of IBM Watson family: Alchemy API platform. IBM Alchemy API cloud platform makes it easy to create application that deeply understand the world’s conversations, reports and photos so you can align your business with customer preferences and intent. By Alchemy APIs is possible to transformer a vast...
- Monday, December 28, 2015 - Watson translation for IBM Control Desk (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, maximo, watson)Can IBM’s Watson replace the human translator ? I realized a Proof Of Concept (POC) how to translate an IBM Control Desk service request by IBM Watson language translate service. I addressed a real Customer scenario where the service requests are opened by self-service application from UK users and the service requests are handled by...
- Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - IBM Control Desk using IBM Watson (Data & AI) (ibm-control-desk, maximo, watson)In this article I’m presenting a Proof Of Concept (POC) to use IBM Watson as support to IBM Control Desk. My idea is to use IBM Watson to find relevant results quickly from large numbers of documents to address the Service Request. My solution is able to leverage the power of IBM Bluemix during the...
- Sunday, December 13, 2015 - NAD 306 Stereo Integrated Amplifier – Long-Term Review (Notes) (hi-fi, nad-306)A long-term, real-world review of the NAD 306 stereo integrated amplifier. Built on NAD’s New Acoustic Dimension philosophy, the NAD 306 delivers 50 watts per channel with exceptional drive, musicality, and reliability. After decades of use, it remains a powerful, rhythmic, and engaging amplifier, featuring a high-quality MM phono stage and the classic understated NAD design.
- Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - Happy Birthday Monkey Island (Notes) (gaming, monkey-island)Monkey Island is more than a game. It is a lesson in humor, design, and narrative freedom that still resonates decades later. This is a small birthday note for a classic that never really aged.










