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Veliswa Boya

Author: Veliswa Boya

Veliswa Boya is a Senior Developer Advocate, based in South Africa and working closely with the builder community in Sub-Saharan Africa. She has fulfilled many roles in tech, which range from developer to analyst, architect to cloud engineer, and now a developer advocate. Veliswa especially enjoys working with those who are new to tech—and those getting started with AWS.

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Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 2

The benefits of the serverless architecture are not reserved to newly written applications. Legacy code can be combined with leading-edge technologies by deploying them in a cloud platform. This will ensure reuse of the massive existing legacy assets and further extend their life, thus using them in new ways. Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with […]

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Serverless COBOL: Rejuvenating legacy code with open source software — Part 1

In this post, we explain how using open source software, GnuCOBOL, combined with AWS Lambda functions, can extend the life of legacy code into a serverless context. We also examine additional benefits of open source software when legacy features are deployed in such a modern environment. The COBOL code described in this post—CI/CD scripts—are available […]