> Cobol remains the language of choice
Sigh , those single liner that both illustrate the ignorance and the status of the author.
I’m an enterprise architect in banking , 6 month ago I was hired for IT Transformation.
My mission was very simple « move the bank the out of mainframe »
In 2 weeks or so I presented a Kafka based runtime based with JVM contracts that would enable the bank to perform in a near real-time manner as opposed to « batch » processing while covering and simplifying 90% of banks related scenario ( SEPA , MasterCard , AML etc...)
The project was accepted by directors but devs refused to go into that because much like the authors they are 30 years in the banks and don’t want to learn something else than what they know « cobol ».
90% of our contractors work is spent dealing with mainframe constraint and writing interfaces and top of that piece of crap that can only process data at night or during the weekend.
Mainframe is not there because « it’s superior » , distributed system have largely proven their capability and maturity.
Mainframe are still there because of Corporates Politics and lack of Leadership from top management.
When you are reminded that Citibank lost 0.5 Billions because they spent 0$ on their UI, you may start to understand how much corporates world is rotten to its core and why mainframe is still there.
Has nothing to do with it’s capability , period.
Sigh , those single liner that both illustrate the ignorance and the status of the author.
I’m an enterprise architect in banking , 6 month ago I was hired for IT Transformation.
My mission was very simple « move the bank the out of mainframe »
In 2 weeks or so I presented a Kafka based runtime based with JVM contracts that would enable the bank to perform in a near real-time manner as opposed to « batch » processing while covering and simplifying 90% of banks related scenario ( SEPA , MasterCard , AML etc...)
The project was accepted by directors but devs refused to go into that because much like the authors they are 30 years in the banks and don’t want to learn something else than what they know « cobol ».
90% of our contractors work is spent dealing with mainframe constraint and writing interfaces and top of that piece of crap that can only process data at night or during the weekend.
Mainframe is not there because « it’s superior » , distributed system have largely proven their capability and maturity.
Mainframe are still there because of Corporates Politics and lack of Leadership from top management.
When you are reminded that Citibank lost 0.5 Billions because they spent 0$ on their UI, you may start to understand how much corporates world is rotten to its core and why mainframe is still there.
Has nothing to do with it’s capability , period.