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Reusable assets in IBM PureApplication System and IBM SmartCloud Application Services

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This article is also valid for IBM SmartCloud Application Services!

Summary:  Reusable components provide a method by which domain experts can capture their knowledge of an enterprise system into reusable components that can be easily consumed by users creating new application patterns. This article describes the use of reusable components and application templates within IBM® PureApplication™ System. Learn about processes that can be used to accelerate the development life cycle and provide consistent implementations across deployments. Continue Reading ->

How to setup your SCAS/IWD/PureApp plugin development environment?

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The IWD technology is used in different IBM products such as IBM SmartCloud Application Services (SCAS) and IBM PureApplication (part of the PureSystems product line).

This technology uses patterns to deploy application and the underlying infrastructure. Pattern-types defines the rules to design patterns. SCAS out of the box provides pattern-types such as the “Web Application” or the “Java” pattern-types. Developers wrote the plugins which define the pattern-types.
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IBM Application Pattern Type for Java: RAP application on Jetty

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I read this article on developerWorks: Deploying into the cloud with the IBM Application Pattern for Java which I found very interesting. It explains how to deploy a Java application in SCAS. The author demonstrates how to setup a Tomcat environment and how to install its application on it.
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Your own pattern-type in few steps!

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I wrote an article on: http://expertintegratedsystemsblog.com 
Please read this to setup your development environment: How to setup your SCAS/IWD/PureApp plugin development environment?

IBM PureApplication can provide you out of the box a number of pattern-types; you can also upload new pattern-types at IBM PureSystems Center but what about if you want to create your own pattern-type that describe your own application environment!

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Has Cyber Monday a taste of Black Monday for some companies?

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After black Friday where American citizens can buy at low price goods in most of the shops comes the Cyber Monday. On that day eShops make incredible discount on their products via the web which attract a lot of cyber customers. This has for consequence a short and huge increase of the load of all servers owned by these companies. This sudden load increase is also called peak load. Continue reading →

QuickStart with DevOps on IBM SmartCloud Application Services

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In this blog, I will explain how you can quickly start with DevOps on IBM SmartCloud Application Services.

The IBM SmartCloud Application Services contains all software you need to run DevOps.

You have access to the ‘Collaborative LifeCycle Management Services’ (CLMS) which will provide the Rational suite (RTC/RRC/RQM). You can also enable the ‘Workload Service’ (WS) which will allows you to quickly deploy a pattern on the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise platform and to connect the dots, you can use the Rational Application Developer (RAD) image available in the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise public catalog. Continue reading →

DevOps at work with IBM SmartCloud Application Services, IBM’s platform as a service

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The DevOps methodology consists of a number of use-cases to manage application development. DevOps covers three areas: development, quality insurance and technology operation. All three are offered within IBM SmartCloud Application Services, IBM’s platform as a service (PaaS) offering. Adopting a DevOps methodology will provide a reduced change scope, will increase release coordination, and speed automation. Continue reading →

Pattern-type (Part 12): Call a service to insert parameters in the vm topology.

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The provided Java API has a number of interfaces, one of them is the PostProvisioner on which I already wrote a blog (Pattern-type (Part 11): Add a post processor to a deployment) another one is the ServiceProvisioner. With this interface you can insert parameter value in the vm topology. Continue reading →