A community theater talk given at DockerCon in Austin, Texas on April 18th, 2017 by Lin Sun and Phil Estes from IBM Cloud. This talk first describes the growth of Watson cognitive services and APIs since its origin beating human participants in Jeopardy years ago, and then takes a simple containerized application and adds cognitive capability by using the Watson Conversation service.

1. Empower Your Docker Containers with Watson
Lin Sun, IBM
Senior SW Eng. / Master Inventor
@linsun_unc
Phil Estes, IBM
STSM, Docker Captain
@estesp

2. Watson + Docker
1. What is Watson?
2. Possible Scenarios
3. Watson + containers
Agenda
Demo Application
1. Overview of the application
2. Demonstration
3. How to add Watson capability
to any application

3. What is Watson?

4. The world is getting smarter every day

5. Watson is really good at understanding
nuances in language and intention.
What we want to do is be able to
identify abuse patterns early and stop
this behavior before it starts.
Stopping abuse on social media
“
- Chris Moody, VP, Twitter
InterConnect, March 2017

6. Personal Concierge Services

7. By 2021, the research firm MarketsandMarkets expects
the video streaming market to reach $70 billion*
What should I watch tonight?
* http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/PressReleases/video-streaming.asp

9. “Guiding a presenter in a collaborative session on word choice”
Watson related Sample Inventions
“Text prediction using environment hints”
“Ratings from communication sessions”
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10. • Easily deploy Watson services within IBM Bluemix
• Access Watson service APIs locally or from any cloud
• Containers are a great match for modern applications
• Interact with Watson APIs via any runtime
• Add cognitive capabilities with micro services
• IBM Bluemix Container Service provides premium
support for Watson services binding and capabilities
Watson and Containers

11. Uses several APIs/services:
> TripIt API
> FlightStats API
> Weather Company API
> Cloudant NoSQL DB
> Watson Conversation Service
A Node.js application; default deploys as a CloudFoundry application.
Easily decomposable into a set of service queries after retrieving trip data.
https://github.com/estesp/flightassist/
11
FlightAssist: Pre-Watson

12. 12
FlightAssist: Application Layout
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
Monolithic CF app
TripIt API
Bluemix Services
Weather
Company
Data
External API/Services
Cloudant
FlightStats API
http://localhost:3000/
http://localhost:3000/authenticate
http://localhost:3000/flights
view index.ejs
oAUTH w/TripIt
TripIt oAUTH callback > view trips.ejs
AJAX calls:
/i/tripdata
/i/flightinfo
/i/weather
/i/conninfo

13. 12
FlightAssist: Application Layout
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
Monolithic CF app
TripIt API
Bluemix Services
Weather
Company
Data
External API/Services
Cloudant
FlightStats API
http://localhost:3000/
http://localhost:3000/authenticate
http://localhost:3000/flights
view index.ejs
oAUTH w/TripIt
TripIt oAUTH callback > view trips.ejs
AJAX calls:
/i/tripdata
/i/flightinfo
/i/weather
/i/conninfo
Watson
Conversation
FlightConcierge!

14. 13
FlightAssist: Application Demonstration
http://localhost:3000/
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
App Container
WeatherService
Language: Python
Container
http://localhost:5000/
/i/weather
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
Monolithic CF app
AJAX calls:
/i/tripdata
/i/flightinfo
/i/weather
/i/conninfo
http://localhost:3000/
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
Monolithic
Containerized App
http://localhost:3000/
WeatherService
Language: Swift
OpenWhisk Action
See: https://github.com/estesp/flightassist/

15. 13
FlightAssist: Application Demonstration
http://localhost:3000/
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
App Container
WeatherService
Language: Python
Container
http://localhost:5000/
See: https://github.com/estesp/flightassist/

16. 13
FlightAssist: Application Demonstration
http://localhost:3000/
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
App Container
WeatherService
Language: Python
Container
http://localhost:5000/
See: https://github.com/estesp/flightassist/
Conversation
Language: Node.js
Container

17. 13
http://localhost:3000/
FlightAssist
Language: Node.js
App Container
WeatherService
Language: Python
Container
http://localhost:5000/
See: https://github.com/estesp/flightassist/
Conversation
Language: Node.js
Container
FlightConcierge

18. Let’s ask our flight concierge
Demo Time!

19. “We have it in our
power to change the
world over.”
-Thomas Paine

20. Thank You
Build something cognitive!
Twitter: @estesp @linsun_unc
Demo: https://github.com/estesp/flightassist
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