How Mainframes Live On

March 1, 2019 by Don Macvittie 0 Comments

TL/DR: Highly controlled change is sometimes the best answer. For much of my career, I’ve worked in mainframe shops. I have never worked on a mainframe team, but I have worked closely with them. I’m in Northeast Wisconsin, and at one point we had the highest per-capita number of mainframes in the world, so pretty […]

Building Amazing Apps, Part 2: Optimizing the Back End

February 28, 2019 by Javier Garza 0 Comments

Building Amazing Apps Optimizing Back End

This is part two of a series of three articles on building and delivering amazing apps at the edge. To read part one, click here. There are millions of apps available today, and it’s incredibly easy for any user to download and install any of them with just a few taps on a screen or […]

Smashing the (DevOps) Stack for Fun and Profit

February 22, 2019 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

Smashing (DevOps) Stack for Fun and Profit

Most organizations that I deal with have a similar story for the promulgation of DevOps in their data center. The story is similar for bringing in most new technology and techniques: A team that usually does a new project without any attachments—relatively small compared to projects at the center of the business—adopted DevOps from the […]

Automation: We Have Not Yet Achieved Balance

February 18, 2019 by Don Macvittie 2 Comments

Automation: We Have Not Achieved Balance

I’m going to start this week’s blog out with a very clear statement that regular readers will already be aware of: I fall on the automation side of the DevOps equation. I see DevOps as automation first, process second. The problem is getting to that “second” part. The act of automating the entire pipeline should, […]

Survey Finds Wide Gap Between DevOps Adoption and Success

February 15, 2019 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

A recent HBR survey shows there is work to be done to advance DevOps in organizations A survey of 654 subscribers to the Harvard Business Review found that while 86 percent of respondents said it is important for their organizations to be able to build and deploy software quickly, only 10 percent said they are […]

Open Mainframe Project: Zowe Ready for Prime Time

February 14, 2019 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

There is a lot of interest in updating mainframe technology/interfaces across traditional enterprises. As development environments and toolsets have evolved outside the mainframe, there is a struggle to keep up—partially because backward compatibility requirements make wild changes difficult and partly because the very architecture of mainframes is different. There have been several fragmented efforts over […]

Self-Service Integration: 3 Areas to Watch

February 4, 2019 by Jitesh Banga 0 Comments

Self-service integration is a priority—more enterprises are turning to it for help in retaining their customer base, delivering a delightful customer experience and making it easier to do business with. It has become a de facto standard for modern-day integration solutions. Enabling business users to build integrations strategically addresses a dire need to establish a […]

APIs and DevOps

January 24, 2019 by Don Macvittie 1 Comments

As always, there are interesting trends in DevOps, and I wanted to point out one that is starting to bother me: the “API economy,” and how it impacts DevOps decision-makers. Traditional infrastructure—SAN, LAN, physical systems, etc.—were generally controlled the best from the command line. While there are a million of them, Cisco IOS is probably […]