Organizations are always encouraging their IT professionals to obtain the highest level of performance out of their applications and systems. It only makes sense that business want to achieve value at a high level of return on their investment in IT. Of course,...
Thanks to the Enum module, in Elixir we can trivially remove duplicates from a list. In the following example, we take a list of integers and pass it to the Enum.uniq/1 function which removes duplicates from the list without altering the original...
Ruby was the first programming language I truly fell in love with. Yes, I had used several others before (and have since), but Ruby was and still is something dear to me. I can appreciate the usefulness of Python, the simplicity of Go, and the mind-expanding nature of...
While many of us are in pandemic mode—hopefully most people who CAN work remotely ARE working remotely. Unfortunately, some folks have lost their jobs at least temporarily, and are hopefully receiving financial assistance from one or more levels of government. And...
In today’s business world, the pressure to deliver faster to be "in the business", the importance to reduce outages and the time to solve any issues to have business applications available 24x7, increase exponentially. Mobile and internet penetration in the daily...
Recently I rewrote the backend for my service, Any New Books, due to an Amazon API change. Generally speaking, rewriting an entire codebase is a bad idea. However, the code was quite old and the API changes rather drastic, so I took the opportunity to rewrite the...
Smartphones have gotten so advanced today that it can almost be hard to tell the difference between the top options. That’s not to say you’d literally mix up an iPhone and its Samsung counterpart — but there aren’t too many defining features that really set one apart...
With the advent of IBM z/OS Container Extensions (zCX), most of the applications that run on Linux at present will also be able to run on z/OS as Docker containers. zCX will be able to run Linux on Z applications on z/OS. Application developers having no z/OS skills...
Once a month we like to pick blog articles from other sources that we feel are interesting enough to talk about on the Planet Mainframe blog. Here are this month’s picks: The Mainframe Is a Modern Platform An interesting article by Planet Mainframe friend and IBM Gold...
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is among the hottest enterprise technologies today, as it promises simple automation of a wide variety of tasks that humans have heretofore performed in front of computers. RPA is especially useful when the interactions are with older,...
