BlueMix-a-lot
July 24, 2017
BlueMix-a-lot
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Watson Analytics (discontinued)
For the past year I've run a personal website on auto-pilot that runs a few thousand API calls per month against IBM Watson Alchemy APIs. Hourly, I fetch articles from HackerNews, and feed the subject line to Watson API so it will auto-categorize them for me. Users of my website are then able to browse articles that are more relevant to their interests.
- IBM Bluemix provides a wealth of powerful APIs. The ones I tried were easy to use and required minimal training to get up to speed.
- I'd rate the documentation 9/10 as it was easy to navigate, had good examples and explained most of the possible inputs/outputs.
- The IBM Bluemix interface itself was horrendous. Performance is a feature, especially for a platform as pricey as Bluemix. Please cure the sluggishness so it's actually useable.
- Billing details could be improved so it's easier to figure out how much I'm paying and why.
- Worst customer support I've ever seen. With multiple tickets, I never heard a response. Despite being a paying customer!
- High ROI. Useful demonstration of my abilities as an engineer; contributed to landing my most recent position.
Used AWS and Azure.
AWS has more features and a far superior interface responsivesness. It's actually usable! That being said default configurations and menus in AWS are more cryptic then necessary.
Azure seems to be the gold standard for pre-configuration and ease of use. Too flashy though. Keep it simple. Keep it fast.
AWS has more features and a far superior interface responsivesness. It's actually usable! That being said default configurations and menus in AWS are more cryptic then necessary.
Azure seems to be the gold standard for pre-configuration and ease of use. Too flashy though. Keep it simple. Keep it fast.