
To start go to the Services Dashboard screen and click Create Service.In an earlier post, we investigated using Bluemix to create a simple Chatbot script. In this post we are going to stand up a simple API that will accept a string of text and then return the tone analysis output in JSON. The particular feature of Bluemix we are interested in is the Watson API’s. Bluemix allows for classic VM architecture, as well as encouraging container based solutions and microservice architectures.

You can run a lot of your infrastructure on Bluemix, everything from VM’s to microservices. IBM Bluemix is IBM’s cloud infrastructure competitor to Amazon Web Services. If you haven’t already, you will need to create a Bluemix account. Creating a Tone Analysis Service With Bluemix So without further ado – building a Watson Tone Analysis Microservice using IBM Bluemix. Within 4 hours, IBM had responded and fixed the issue. I was planning on using the Tone Analysis service from IBM Bluemix Watson API’s but couldn’t seem to create credentials. It’s no secret that I was not looking forward to figuring out the technical innards of sentiment analysis in order to make my simple system to tell me if I need to build a bunker and stock up on basic survival supplies like water, food, and batteries.
