Gaurav Khanna
Gaurav Khanna is a senior principal QA engineer at Rocket Software and a 2026 IBM Champion. He works extensively with IBM i technologies, specializing in DevOps automation, high availability, and modernization solutions. Gaurav brings a strong track record of advancing and assuring the quality of enterprise software platforms relied upon by IBM i customers around the world.
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From Green Screens To Smart Factories: Explaining DevOps To The Next Gen IBM i Developers
June 1, 2026 Gaurav Khanna
Over the past few years, many IBM i teams have encountered a surprising challenge when onboarding new developers. It isn’t platform complexity. It isn’t system performance. And it certainly isn’t reliability. The challenge is explaining how modern software development practices – things like CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and centralized repositories – fit into traditional IBM i development workflows.
This gap often shows from both directions. For developers who grew up with Git and cloud-native tools, concepts like manual object promotion and library-based deployment can feel unfamiliar. At the same time, experienced IBM i professionals often hear terms like “shift-left testing” …
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