Using data replication in legacy displacement
Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave complete their article about introducing seams into mainframe systems by looking how we can use data replication. Done well, it can provide a rapid start…
Creating Seams in a Mainframe’s Batch Pipelines
Mainframe processing is often organized into pipelines of batch processes consuming and creating data files. Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave show a couple of ways they found to introduce seams…
Uncovering Seams in a Mainframe’s external interfaces
Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave move on to analyzing the internal seams of the application by treating the database as a coarse-grained seam. They describe how they introduced seams into…
Joining LinkedIn
As the enmuskification of Twitter continues, I’ve increasingly heard that more people are using LinkedIn to keep up with new professional material. So, a couple of weeks ago, I set…
Farewell, John Kordyback
John Kordyback, a treasured colleague and friend, died last week, aged 64. more… Source: martinfowler
Uncovering Seams in a Mainframe’s external interfaces
Alessio Ferri and Tom Coggrave start detailing the seams they explored with two areas of external interfaces. Batch input of files are copied to new implementations while comparing the output…
How to capture qualitative metrics
Abi Noda and Tim Cochran complete their article on qualitative metrics by outlining how to capture them effectively. They discuss the mental steps that people go through as they respond…
How to capture qualitative metrics
Abi Noda and Tim Cochran complete their article on qualitative metrics by outlining how to capture them effectively. They discuss the mental steps that people go through as they respond…