Having gained an understanding of what Bluemix is and what it offers from the previous chapters, and now having gained an understanding of the microservices pattern, you will be able to get a perspective on why Bluemix is a platform that is suitable for microservices-based application development. Let us immediately get into discussing an application use case that we will illustrate in this section, which will also help to bring forth the concept of microservices and help with your understanding of this.

In this section, we will build an application leveraging concepts and applications that we have developed and learned in previous chapters. We will be using the application we developed in Chapter 4 , Leveraging On-Premise Software for Applications on Bluemix in which we retrieved a certain Twitter feed, translated it into French, did some sentiment analysis on it, and then persisted it in a MongoDB database that existed locally on...