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How Building a Banking App Is Like Making a Michelin-Star Meal

How Building a Banking App Is Like Making a Michelin-Star Meal

by Allan Zander | May 28, 2025

—From a guy who’s burned both soufflés and production servers Last year, I had a unique opportunity to pursue a lifelong ambition and go to culinary school. I took a sabbatical with the help of my team and had a year to think less about performance and optimization of...

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In-memory technology: It’s new, and it’s not…

In-memory technology: It’s new, and it’s not…

by Allan Zander | Feb 9, 2017

We read a lot about in-memory technology these days, especially as it applies to Big Data and analytics. In fact, it’s one of the fastest growing areas in all of computing, and has been since before Gartner identified it as such back in 2012. That should be no...

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Open Mainframe Project: I am a Mainframer Conversation Series

Open Mainframe Project: I am a Mainframer Conversation Series

by Jeffrey Frey | Jan 26, 2017

Late in 2016, the Open Mainframe Project and the Linux Foundation began a series of interviews with industry leaders to discuss the advantages of running Linux on the mainframe platform – the first interview was with Allan Zander, CEO of DataKinetics. Here is that...

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