The current COBOL standard was released in 2014 and the latest IBM Z mainframe was released in April 2020. Contrary to being legacy technologies, development is still incredibly active on both and together they still easily handle a large number of mission critical workloads, from airlines to banks, around the world. You'll even find mainframes in IBM Cloud, driving secure key handling, encrypted databases, and secure, Linux-based, virtual machines.

In this talk you'll hear from a former cloud-focused Linux Systems Administrator who has recently joined the world of COBOL and mainframes to learn about what she's discovered about the ecosystem, and the modern, DevOps-driven tooling now available to developers entering this space.

🎓 What will you learn?
In this talk developers will learn:

What do modern COBOL and mainframes look like?

How is open source playing a major role in the modern mainframe ecosystem?

What kinds of DevOps tools are being made available to mainframe developers?

Developers and DevOps practitioners who are curious about how today's COBOL and mainframes integrate into a modern environment.

Elizabeth K. Joseph, IBM Z Developer Advocate, https://twitter.com/pleia2

Learn how COBOL and open source are used in modern mainframe ecosystem