Alison Ishimaru, Author at Eradani

Beyond APIs: Integration Everywhere and with Everything for Your IBM i

APIs, Development, Integration / Alison Ishimaru

More Than APIs Every day, I speak with IBM i users with new and interesting use cases for connecting their IBM i systems to help their businesses increase revenue, reduce costs, and better serve their customers. Some are integrating applications across multiple platforms within their organizations, replacing expensive, batch-oriented technologies like FTP/SFTP and EDI to […]

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Creating Real, Secure, Production-Ready APIs the Easy Way for Your IBM i

APIs, Development, Modernization / Alison Ishimaru

An IBM i developer called me recently to discuss their challenges with API enabling their IBM i. He had been experimenting with several tools that easily generate an HTTP endpoint for accessing a DB2 table or an RPG program. However, as he got deeper into building the APIs his company needed, he found that he

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Transformation Not Modernization

Integration, Modernization, Open Source / Alison Ishimaru

Last week, I had a surprising conversation with an IBM i user. She contacted us about our API generation solutions, and I told her that many people were using our tools for IBM i modernization. Her response was, “we are not modernizing; we are transforming.” “What’s the difference?” I asked. She replied, “Our company has

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Passing the Torch: Preparing Your IBM i Apps for the next Generation

Development, Integration / Alison Ishimaru

Not too long ago, I spoke with an executive at a large clothing manufacturer who was facing a significant challenge. All their core systems ran on the IBM i, and he told me that their one programmer was finally about to retire. That programmer was the only person who really understood how their applications worked.

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Kafka 101: Unleash the Power of High-Performance, Resilient IBM i APIs

eCommerce, Open Source / Alison Ishimaru

Apache Kafka is a high-performance, resilient, open source-based, event-driven, pub-sub messaging application for providing loosely coupled connections between a variety of message producers and consumers. If that sentence seems like a whole bunch of confusing jargon, read on! In this post, I’ll introduce the basics of Kafka and why it can be so valuable. At

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