SOA filling the Gaps

  Solving coding problems was one of my responsibilities as a Sytems Programmer in the 80th of the previous century.    The programs were written in COBOL .   A programmer had a probelm in a simple Program which copied File to File, probably omitting some of the fields.  She complained about the need to write her program. "It is better that the Systems Programmers will write a general purpose  program copying file to file and we will have to supply only the parameters" she said.  The Wheel was invented long ago I told her that there is no need that we will write such a program, as well as there is no need that she will code her program.  IBM already supplied a free utility called IEBCOPY which is performing the task she asked for. The Chaos of AI Coding Stories like the old bizzar story depicted in the previous section will become common stories in the AI coding age.  It is easy to ask Claude or ChatGPT to code simple programs. It is no...

  More than 4 years ago I was asked if Public Cloud Core Banking is a Hype or a Short Term Reality? If you had read the post, you would probably find the answer that it was probably Hype and not Short Term Reality . This post Revisits the same issue. Size Matters The issue is a major issue for Large Banks. Those banks use IBM Mainframe for executing their Core Banking systems.  Smaller Banks used two decades ago UNIX based Core Banking Packages.  The Systems Availability, Scalability and Security was not as high as the Mainframe based Core Banking Systems, but it was probably good enough. My very limited Study I looked for real Case Studies of deployments of Core Banking system in the Public Cloud . I looked for articles and Research Notes by Googling. I did not find much. No real Case Studies of Large Banks transforming their Core Banking to Cloud Based systems. I refer to the following articles: Mckinsey's  Core systems strategy for banks   Deloitte's Cloud ...