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by jbfr 8y ago
Hi there! Fellow IBMer :) sorry to hear about your experience so far, just wanted to chime in and say that you're definitely not alone with this perspective. Patents at IBM are so highly valued that they often act as a blinder towards
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by jbfr 8y ago
Would also throw https://www.carbondesignsystem.com/ into the mix! We're the design system for IBM :)
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by jbfr 8y ago
There's a ton of great info packed into this article. It's definitely been a struggle over the years to find a balance between when to prioritize CLI over UI development for Cloud services, but I think they arrived at a sweet spot
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by jbfr 9y ago
This is absolutely correct. Before the end of last year, getting approval to use it was a very challenging process. However, many teams went through the process in order to use it because of how valuable they believe React is to their produ
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by jbfr 9y ago
A good mix of both, surprisingly :) To be concrete, IBM Watson has several products that leverage it that we sell to customers. For example, Watson Company Profiler, Watson Virtual Agent, Watson Discovery-related tools, and more. Other orga
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by jbfr 9y ago
To add on to this list, even IBM with their large patent portfolio has a large number of teams deploying projects using React and other FB OSS technology. Disclaimer: I work for IBM.
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by jbfr 9y ago
Disclosure: I work for IBM on a team impacted by these changes. As far as I know multiple business units within IBM, including Cloud, Watson, and Watson IoT have gone through relocation requests for Design and Engineering roles.
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by jbfr 11y ago
Totally agree, makes the subject extremely approachable versus a lot of technical alternatives that may be deterring to either newcomers, or just people from different backgrounds.
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by jbfr 11y ago
I work in the IBM Design Studio and all the employees have MacBook Pros. It's been working out pretty well actually, even with respect to integrating with some of IBM's legacy software that we have to deal with.
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by jbfr 11y ago
Trying to get a learning project off the ground that revolves around providing Dev Ops for Front End Developers. Goal is to create a solution for product teams that integrates Front End Dev Ops services into a product with minimal infrastru