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Clickbait detected. If this were true, we'd see a massive uptick in the sales of mainframes. Mainframes don't scale. Nor do the apps you build into them. Unle
by tedk-42 6y ago
Clickbait detected.
If this were true, we'd see a massive uptick in the sales of mainframes.
Mainframes don't scale. Nor do the apps you build into them. Unless you have very deep engineering pockets. Most places though won't invest in this due to the high initial upfront cost.
- dfox 6y agoThere is nothing inherent in mainframe hardware nor software ecosystem that causes it to not scale. In fact, "modern" scalable software architecture with containers, microservices and pervasive automation closely matches how things are done in mainframe environment for 30+ years. This fact obviously isn't lost on the IBM, because they even market scaled down mainframe hardware as "kubernetes cluster in a box".