Marcel Sarrasin
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Thoroughly Modern: Improving The Digital Experience With APIs
April 11, 2022 Marcel Sarrasin
The world is an ever-changing place, and that means there is always something new that needs to be done to either improve applications running on the IBM i platform or to integrate them with other applications or interfaces on new kinds of devices. This is an important aspect of modernization, and one that often bridges the back-end databases and applications and the front-end interfaces through which end users access those applications – both of which need to be modernized, and often independently.
This is made possible by having application programming interfaces, or APIs, and if IBM i customers have tens …
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Thoroughly Modern: Infrastructure Challenges And Easing Into The Cloud
November 8, 2021 Marcel Sarrasin
There is an old saying, purportedly a Chinese curse but never proven to be anything but a saying by English diplomats who interfaced with the Middle Kingdom: “May you live in interesting times.” There is an equally mistaken etymology that the word for “crisis” in Chinese is comprised of two Mandarin words for “danger” and “opportunity.”
Even though people misunderstand the source of these sayings, and the latter one is just simply not true at all, it is still the case that there has never been a more interesting time in the information technology sector in general and …
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