IBM Nears The End of the Road for Server Reliability Improvements Alex Woodie

​[[{“value”:”Reliability has always been one of the hallmarks of IBM big iron, the midrange and mainframe systems hundreds of thousands of companies run their businesses on around the world. These sturdy systems simply don’t go down very often, certainly less frequently than “industry-standard” (i.e. Intel-based) systems. In fact, the System z and Power systems are so reliable that, statistically speaking, there’s very little room for improvement.
For data on uptime and reliability, we turn to Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC), which is led by longtime IT industry analyst Laura DiDio. ITIC has been conducting an annual server and operating system …
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Guru: Web Concepts For The RPG Developer, Part 4 Chris Ringer

​[[{“value”:”The final article in this series is about the JWT (JSON Web Token). If you wish to review the previous articles, you can drill back from part three. For unattended machine to machine (M2M) processes, a JWT string is a formatted container for requesting access to a resource server. I think of a resource server as the applications. And in our case, the JWT has an asymmetric signature.
But really, what is a JWT? It’s similar to a temporary driver’s license. Think about your last visit to a hotel (figure 1).
Steps:

You present your ID (JWT) during check-in


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IBM Working On Making Enterprise Java Easier Timothy Prickett Morgan

​[[{“value”:”Java is important in the enterprise, and getting more important, and IBM wants to help make managing and using Java easier.
At this time last year, there were 26.3 million application developers in the world, and according to CodeNinja, about 20 million of them were reasonably fluent in JavaScript, nearly double the number six years ago. (We are not sure if CodeNinja is counting Node.js as a variant of JavaScript, as it probably should.)
Java, a much older cross-platform language and the lingua franca of business logic in the enterprise, is not as large but is seeing a bit …
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