TFH Volume: 31 Issue: 55 Archives

GraphQL’s Emerging Role in Modernization of Monolithic Applications

August 30, 2021 Alex Woodie

Every now and then, a technology emerges that lifts up everything around it. GraphQL has the potential to be a technology like that, and that’s good news for customers running older, established applications, such as those that run on IBM iron.

IBM’s mainframe and its midrange IBM i server often are maligned as old, washed-up, legacy platforms, but people who say that are missing a key distinction: it’s usually not the server that’s old. In most cases, it’s the application that was first deployed in the Clinton Administration (or earlier) that is the problem.

Companies typically have many reasons for …
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Software Change Management Starts – And Ends – With Security

August 30, 2021 Alan Brown

In science fiction, the problem with networked computers is that eventually they get smart. In the real world, and at least so far in the 21^st century, the problem with network computers is that the very act of networking them means that they can be hacked into, and then ransomware and other kinds of malware can wreak their havoc.

There is a lot to be said for open source software and the comfort that comes from having lots of eyes looking over the code for any potential weirdness. While we acknowledge that not all open source software is written …
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Guru: Another Red Flag – Joining On Expressions

August 30, 2021 Ted Holt

One would think that a given datum, for example a sales order number, would be defined identically in the various database tables in which it is found within an organization, but one might be wrong. I have on many occasions faced the challenge of joining two or more tables on unmatched data types.

But it gets worse than that. Sometimes joins involve expressions, which may consist of mathematical operations and/or invocations of functions, both intrinsic and user-written. As with the word DISTINCT in a SELECT, the presence of expression in a join sends up a little red flag that …
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As I See It: Anatomy of Failure

August 30, 2021 Victor Rozek

Decades before the term “woke” became a thing, a couple trained in psychology expanded their portfolio to include corporate consulting. Among other offerings, they taught a seminar called “Conscious Business Practices,” during which they identified three principal reasons why corporations fail.

Their names are Gay and Katie Hendricks, and they are book-writing machines. Those who actually still read books may recognize some of their enduring before-the-turn-of-the-century offerings: Conscious Living, At the Speed of Life, and The Corporate Mystic.

I first wrote about their work over 20 years ago, a time barely recognizable now. And I was curious …
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Forecast: Systems Spending Steady, Up For Services And Software

August 30, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan

The individual IT budgets at the companies we work at exist in relation to – and often in stark contrast to – the overall market and to companies that are the same size as ours or in the same industry we play in. In this sense, IT spending forecasts from the several major IT market researchers set the pace for expectations, and people being what they are, they are affected (metaphorically speaking) in a relativistic fashion (size warps space and time) and in a quantum fashion (watching an experiment changes it). It gets hard to separate causes from effects in …
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GraphQL’s Emerging Role in Modernization of Monolithic Applications

Software Change Management Starts – And Ends – With Security

Guru: Another Red Flag – Joining On Expressions

As I See It: Anatomy of Failure

Forecast: Systems Spending Steady, Up For Services And Software

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