Information technology is developing at a rapid pace, with completely new areas emerging, such as DevOps and DevSecOps – and we’re striving to keep up. However, in some projects, you may encounter systems built on rather outdated principles. Such systems must be approached with care, since a single mistake can lead to data loss and malfunctions. To some extent, this is true for today’s systems too, but for systems with a rich history, the risks are significantly higher.
Mainframes are just such an example of old architecture. These software-hardware solutions rely on principles developed in the 1960s. However, they’re still in use today, for example, to simultaneously process a large number of transactions, perform complex computing operations, and so on.
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