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Kevin Yung

Author: Kevin Yung

Kevin has 10 years’ experience working with AWS technology. He is a Senior Modernization Architect in AWS Professional Services Global Mainframe and Midrange Modernization (GM3) team. Kevin’s current role is focusing on leading and delivering mainframe and midrange applications migration and modernization for large enterprise customers. During his customer engagements, Kevin has published 10 patterns in AWS Prescriptive Guidance, including the latest Mainframe Modernisation: DevOps on AWS with Micro Focus. In addition, he has authored and contributed to AWS Open Source Projects and AWS blog posts for AWS System Managers, Serverless Microservice Deployment and Amazon Workspaces.

Building Blue/Green application deployment to Micro Focus Enterprise Server

Organizations running mainframe production workloads often follow the traditional approach of application deployment. To release new features of existing applications into production, the application is redeployed using the new version of software on the existing infrastructure. This poses the following challenges: The cutover of the application deployment from testing to production usually takes place during […]

Mainfrme DevOps On AWS Architecture Overview, Two types of pipelines, Project Pipeline and Regression Pipeline

Automate thousands of mainframe tests on AWS with the Micro Focus Enterprise Suite

We have seen mainframe customers often encounter scalability constraints, and they can’t support their development and test workforce to the scale required to support business requirements. These constraints can lead to delays, reduce product or feature releases, and make them unable to respond to market requirements. Furthermore, limits in capacity and scale often affect the quality of changes deployed, and are linked to unplanned or unexpected downtime in products or services.
The conventional approach to address these constraints is to scale up, meaning to increase MIPS/MSU capacity of the mainframe hardware available for development and testing. The cost of this approach, however, is excessively high, and to ensure time to market, you may reject this approach at the expense of quality and functionality. If you’re wrestling with these challenges, this post is written specifically for you.