Hi again my friends!

Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to go back home (@Madrid) for work, and stay there for few days. This was a great experience not just because of being at home and spending some time with my family. Also because of the opportunity to go back to where I started my career in IT some years ago: IBM in Madrid. While being there, I even had some time to meet my former manager and some colleagues to remember nice past situations.

Brother’s questions

But back to the track and to the original point of this blog now! When I speak to my brother, I often encourage him to look at Bluemix, to try it and play around with it. He is very curious and interested in IT even if he is still at school. So what happened when I was there at home? Well, he just told me: Marco, now that you are here, please show me Bluemix and what can I do with it?!

Where to start?

Then my question was: what to show to someone that has never used Bluemix or a similar platform? In turned out to be easier than what I expected.

I did the following:

• Showed him the main page and what he could do with it.
• Login with my account to show him the catalog of services and application runtime available.
• Showed him the use of boilerplates for an easy start on Bluemix (like the one for Internet of Things foundation)
• Accessed to some of the services I had deployed like Cloudant, NodeRed or dashDB to show him how you can easily access each management console to manage your service.

Results

After few minutes showing him how he could use Bluemix and in particular, what HE could do with it, he really looked interested and just when I left his room he was already creating his own account.

Many times we spoke about creating application or how to build an idea. Now with Bluemix this is easier as he does not have to think about infrastructure, servers or operating systems, he can just go and build his ideas on the top of it.

These are some of the links I showed to him:

What is this Bluemix thing?

Translate Twitter with Watson

Analyzing Twitter profiles with Node.js

I hope he will now start to use it and I really look forward to hear from him saying:

Hey Marco, you were right, I already got an app for my idea built thanks to Bluemix!