September meetup - Cloudant and developing on IBM Bluemix

Yes, we are back after the August summer break. Once again, we have access to Shoreditch Village Hall so we can return to this excellent venue for the September meetup.

The next meetup includes a talk by Cloudant on using this database with Bluemix, and a talk on the development environment that forms part of Bluemix (called IBM DevOps Services).

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Building apps with Cloudant and BlueMix (Simon Metson)

Cloudant is a NoSQL database provided as a service (DBaaS). It's the perfect partner for data rich BlueMix applications; enabling you to easily store, analyse and search your data without the worry of scaling issues or the "app store effect". The talk will look at the "aaS" landscape, what you can do with Cloudant and how integrating Cloudant and BlueMix can really supercharge your applications.

Simon Metson is the Product Director, Cloudant (anIBM® company). When asked to introduce himself, he said:

"I’m Simon Metson, a lapsed particle physicist, a product director at Cloudant (now an IBM® company), and a project committer on Apache CouchDB. For 10 years I worked on the distributed computing system for one of the Large Hadron Collider experiments, dealing with petabytes of relational and non-relational data. I'm now a product director at Cloudant, since joining in March 2012, focussing on making our service run smoothly and scale massively"

IBM DevOps Services - not just code (Anthony Kesterton)

IBM DevOps Services is a planning and development environment for IBM BlueMix, and other technologies. I will show you how to use IDS as well as explain how we used the system to manage a small but very distributed project (the rollout of a new tool at a large bank).

Anthony Kesterton is a technical specialist at IBM, and co-organiser of the London Bluemix meetup group.

Try IBM Bluemix

Feel free to bring along a tablet or laptop if you want to try out IBM Bluemix on the evening. You can sign up for an account on IBM Bluemix immediately, and start building the next killer app while munching on the snacks we provide at the meetup.