Every Innovation Starts With a Real Problem

Every Innovation Starts With a Real Problem

The market has consolidated a somewhat romanticized view of innovation in technology: a team driven by a great idea, searching for where to apply it. In mission-critical operations, the logic works the other way around. The problem comes first; engineering comes as...
Hybrid Architecture Is No Longer a Transitional Stage

Hybrid Architecture Is No Longer a Transitional Stage

The prevailing narrative has long treated hybrid architecture as an intermediate state. The mainframe would remain responsible for critical systems while applications and data were gradually moved to the cloud, eventually resulting in a simpler architecture centered...
Testability as a Platform: The Next Step for DevOps on the Mainframe

Testability as a Platform: The Next Step for DevOps on the Mainframe

DevOps has advanced significantly on the mainframe in recent years. Pipelines have become more automated, modern tools have been integrated into the z/OS development lifecycle, and practices once associated primarily with distributed environments have become part of...
Is Your Db2 Getting Slower — or Do You Just Not Know It Yet?

Is Your Db2 Getting Slower — or Do You Just Not Know It Yet?

On the mainframe, performance degradation does not usually begin with an obvious failure. It tends to emerge gradually: more pages being read, increased fragmentation, less efficient indexes, and maintenance operations taking longer and longer. By the time the impact...