The legacy challenge… Legacy mainframe applications are usually excluded when it comes to DevOps transformation. After all, it’s a daunting task to modernize millions of lines of code written in the 1970s to the present day while the system is still monolithic. Avoiding these applications, though, can significantly hamper the effectiveness of overall IT delivery efficiency.
Before we get started… There’s a very real chance that some of you won’t even finish this sentence before saying “too long; didn’t read” so here’s a brief summary to try and capture your interest:
TL;DR: American has been tiptoeing into the world of Open Source through our involvement in student hackathons and through our “lessons learned” from our InnerSource community.