If you’re searching for a dynamic duo to offer real talk about the mainframe, look no further than Jeremy Hamilton, Field CTO, North America, and Anthony (Tony) Anter, DevOps Architect and Evangelists, both from BMC Software.
Planet Mainframe sat down at SHARE Kansas City to dig into the combined expertise of this former physicist and full distributed DevOps expert.
- Biggest hurdle to working on mainframe: The vernacular.
- Mainframe limitations: There are no technical limitations to what you can do on the mainframe platform.
- Mainframe relevance: If the mainframe sneezes, the whole organization gets sick.
- The mainframe is like: A heavyweight champion compared to someone at the gym lifting weights
- When there’s an outage: Everyone gets on a war call and says, ‘It wasn’t me!’
- Book recommendation: The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
- On AI replacing humans: “You used to have to move things by hand. Would you rather drive a forklift or pick up a 5,000 pound box? These are tools to help you do your job, not to replace you.”
Watch their full conversation with more zingers about why not to be scared and how tools don’t make a plumber.
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Penney Berryman, MPH (she/her), is the Content Editor for Planet Mainframe. She also writes health technology and online education marketing materials. Penney is based in Austin, Texas.
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