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Generate PowerPoint slides from your Db2 data with Python

by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Jan 10, 2023 | dashdb, DB2, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, Python

Generated PowerPoint slide with Db2 dataHow did you spend the holidays? I had some days off and then used the last day of vacation for some fun programming. Last year, I wanted to test the python-pptx package, but couldn't find time. So I used my "fun day" to generate...

Finally together: Db2 and Zeppelin

by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 25, 2022 | analytics, data in action, DB2, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, jdbc, notebook

United: Db2 and ZeppelinIf you followed my blog, you may have noticed that I wrote about Db2 and about Zeppelins in the past - but not together. Today, I am going to discuss how I configured a JDBC interpreter in an Apache Zeppelin notebook to connect to a Db2 on...

IDUG 2022 EMEA conference is over – keep it going

by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 7, 2022 | conference, DB2, dedug, fun, IBM, idug, IT, user group

"IDUG 2023 EMEA will be in"The IDUG 2022 EMEA Db2 Tech Conference is over. What a week it was! Hard work, not much sleep, technical education, in-person networking, fun, and much more. After getting home, I needed two days and especially the nights to recharge, then...

From Bluemix to IBM Cloud, from Cloud Foundry to Code Engine

by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Mar 16, 2022 | bluemix, cloudfoundry, fun, github, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, migration

"Bring Your Own Community"About seven years ago, I started to work with, then blog about Bluemix and Cloud Foundry. Not my first, but one of the first posts is titled "Some fun with Bluemix, Cloud Foundry, Python, JSON and the Weather". Reading that article again I...

Rate-limit Kafka event generation with kcat and bash

by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 24, 2021 | big data, data in action, fun, ibmcloud, IT, scripting

Traffic for event streamsRecently, I worked with IBM Cloud Event Streams which is a message bus built with Apache Kafka. I was looking for a simple command-line tool to test my Event Streams instance and to stream access logs into it. That's when I ran into kcat...

On serverless data scraping, cloud object storage, MinIO and rclone

by Henrik Loeser (data_henrik) | Nov 18, 2021 | administration, big data, data in action, fun, IBM, ibmcloud, IT, notebook, Python, tools

Building a data lake the serverless wayThis fall, I started another side project. It involves mobility data and its analysis and visualization. As first step and still ongoing, I am building up a data lake (and maybe integrating it into a data fabric). For that, I...
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