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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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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According to the latest statistics, almost 60% of all web traffic is initiated from mobile devices. More than 50% of business to business web interactions now come from mobile (check out mobile statistics here). Yet, for many IBM i shops, building native mobile apps is expensive and requires skills they don’t have in house. How
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We were on a family to trip to Disneyland this past weekend and my kids wanted to go on the Indiana Jones ride. We really don’t like long lines so we kept checking our Disney app to see if the current wait for the ride was less than ninety minutes. After checking several times an
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If you are a user of an IBM i software package or a vendor of IBM i applications, then API enablement creates significant opportunities for you. In addition to providing packaged application customers with the latest user experiences and connectivity, APIs can address one of the oldest issues in using packaged software. Early in my
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A few weeks ago, a customer of ours asked if Eradani could provide them with a dashboard for tracking all the API calls that were coming into their IBM i. They wanted charts and graphs that would show them at a glance how much API activity was occurring, what kind of response times their customers
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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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A customer of ours responded to one of my blog posts on APIs and said, “you are missing one of the great benefits of using APIs!” “What would that be?”, I asked. She replied, “The ability to call out to services and open source functions right from our RPG programs! It makes it so easy
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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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It’s time to get aggressive about leveraging APIs to build your business. In previous blogs, I’ve written about the power of open source for rapidly adding capabilities to your applications. APIs are like open source components on steroids. APIs allow you to take advantage of the explosion of data sources and capabilities that are being
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