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Simplify Software Delivery Using Containers and the Cloud

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Wouldn’t it be great if your teams could just focus on the coding? After all, we want to be innovative and write great software! Unfortunately, most really interesting software requires you to think about other things. How do you package up and deliver all the components of the solution How do you take care of all of the dependencies? How do you make sure the end-to-end solution is scalable? How do you make sure that the solution is easy to manage? Answering these questions requires you to consider a lot more than just “coding the logic”. In times past, the only software that had these sorts of demands was large scale business IT systems. And to meet these demands they made use of a great platform: the mainframe. Unfortunately, the mainframe did a lot of this at the expense of choice. The software had limitations – all UIs tended to be of the “green-screen” variety. All your code was written in Cobol. Integration was with CICS, as was data storage and retrieval. But you