Life and Death in the Age of Automation

November 1, 2018 by Bob Reselman 2 Comments

Has automation changed the way we perceive interaction with others? A few weeks back I got an email from an old friend, Jim. Typically, that’s no big deal; I get emails from old friends all the time. Except, in this case, it was different. According to a posting on Facebook, Jim passed away about a […]

Dependency Based Build Promotes the Freedom to Program

September 21, 2018 by Bob Reselman 1 Comments

Whenever I want to be amazed, all I need to do is reflect on the fact that the continuing development of the Linux operating system is done essentially by a community of volunteers. That’s right! One of the most popular and important operating systems is updated and maintained through donated labor. Any programmer anywhere in […]

Education in the Age of Automation

September 7, 2018 by Bob Reselman 1 Comments

Automation is changing the nature of education and the ways people learn. More schools are using online learning to supplement in-class activities. In fact, some schools are completely online. Distributed computing on the internet and the automation that drives it makes this possible. Everything changes when the formal education process becomes embedded in the internet. […]

Implementing DevSecOps in the Mainframe-Driven Enterprise

August 9, 2018 by Bob Reselman 2 Comments

Implementing DevSecOps Mainframe-Driven Enterprise

DevSecOps is emerging as an important trend in corporate IT. It makes sense. With each passing day more applications serve a larger user base. Whereas in the past the typical business application was accessible only from within the confines of an enterprise’s internal network, today, the software-as-a-service (SaaS) paradigm enables millions of users work with […]

Hardware in the Age of Automation

August 3, 2018 by Bob Reselman 1 Comments

There’s a joke making its way around the internet that goes like this: Q: How do DevOps engineers change a lightbulb? A: They don’t. It’s a hardware problem. The trend to abstract hardware away from the day-to-day work of most IT personnel continues. We in DevOps have given it a name: infrastructure as code. Hardware […]

When It Comes to Mainframe Computing, There’s More to Containers Than Containers

July 17, 2018 by Bob Reselman 1 Comments

When people in the DevOps world hear the word “containers,” most of the time they imagine the lightweight, standalone, executable Docker binaries that have become commonplace in today’s cloud infrastructure. It might come as a surprise, however, that the world of mainframe computing not only supports traditional Docker containers, but also expands the concepts of […]

Thinking About the Future in the Age of Automation

July 9, 2018 by Bob Reselman 3 Comments

Let’s do a thought experiment. Let’s imagine a world in which almost all the work required to sustain human life on the planet is performed by intelligent machines. Think about it: All the crops get planted, raised and harvested by robots. Same for livestock. Machines make all the clothing and build all the houses. People […]

Coming Apart in the Age of Automation

May 31, 2018 by Bob Reselman 2 Comments

One of the fundamental tenets of DevOps is that working in closed, departmental silos is counterproductive for creating quality software. Rather, work is done best when groups are composed of members from across the business working openly and cooperatively. Experience shows time and time again that open, multifaceted teams made up of a variety of […]