October 1, 2025
IoT & Big Data: From Sensor to Dashboard, via IBM i
End-to-end IoT pipelines for engineering and business school students — MQTT, Node-RED, time-series storage, and real-time dashboards connected to IBM i business data.
August 29, 2025
Cloud Design Patterns: Event-Driven, CDC, and Mesh Architectures
Real cloud design patterns from a Polytech Montpellier course — Kafka event streaming, Debezium CDC from IBM i, and data mesh concepts applied to enterprise modernization.
May 16, 2023
IoT Meets IBM i: Real-Time Dashboards with VMS and Event Streaming
Connecting industrial IoT sensors to IBM i business systems via Kafka — a real production pattern for predictive maintenance and operational intelligence.
February 28, 2022
Data Fabric & AI: watsonx.data, Governance, and the Unified Data Layer
IBM watsonx.data as the open lakehouse for unified federated queries across IBM i Db2 and cloud data stores — with the RetailOne reference architecture.
May 19, 2019
Node-RED & Watson IoT: Prototyping Connected Systems
Node-RED and Watson IoT Platform labs for university sessions — a practical introduction to event-driven IoT pipelines, and the origin of node-red-contrib-db2-for-i.