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About August 22, 2021 Tony Erwin Evolving the IBM Cloud Console with Microservices: A Node.js Success Story Introduction The IBM Cloud console provides the web front end for IBM Cloud , an open and secure public cloud providing enterprise-class IaaS and PaaS capabilities with over 170 managed services covering data, AI, IoT, security, blockchain, and more. I’ve had the pleasure of working on the console for most of the last decade. As a more junior developer, I wrote the first lines of proof-of-concept fron
I became the lead full-stack architect in 2014, and had the opportunity to work with a countless number of talented developers, UI designers, and offering managers as the console’s architecture and user experience (UX) were regularly updated and improved to keep pace with the maturing IBM Cloud. Last year, I left this amazing team for another role as an architect on the IBM Cloud for Financial Services . As I reflect on the experience, I’ll share with you how the console architecture has evolved from its mo
The IBM Cloud console serves as a UX consolidation point for the entire IBM Cloud ecosystem, with UIs contributed by more than 75 teams across IBM that cover a wide range of IBM Cloud features and functions. With these contributions, the console lets users create, view, and manage all of their IBM Cloud resources. It also provides a UX for a number of other core platform capabilities, including: