Open Source

RPG to Python: What to Expect as a First-Time Python Developer

RPG + Python: What to Expect as a First-Time Python Developer The Similarities Between RPG and Python If you’re an experienced RPG developer looking to expand your skills into Python, you may be wondering – just how different are these languages really? While RPG and Python share some common procedural programming concepts, Python offers a […]

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

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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Create Exciting APIs

Use APIs to Quickly Create Exciting New Functions for the IBM i!

After my last blog post on using publicly available web services to quickly and easily add new functions to your RPG applications  (https://eradani.com/2020/10/26/quickly-add-exciting-new-capabilities-to-your-rpg-applications-using-open-source/), I had several requests from readers for additional API use cases. So here goes…   Barcode Label Printing We have spoken with several customers who have been using Advanced Function Printing Utilities

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Web Services IBMi

Web Services and Your IBM i―The Right Way (Faster, Stronger, & Securer)

Every time I talk to a customer, I learn about great new use cases for calling web services from IBM i applications or calling IBM i functions from open source. What I have found is that although RPG is a much better language for business applications, JavaScript is the right language for web services. Customers

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