The number seven has been a symbol of luck and fortune and design in many ancient cultures around the world, and so it is with the IBM i world. As it turns out, we think there are a “Lucky Seven” key tips for optimizing your own DevOps implementation, allowing you to leverage your IBM i platform for competitive advantage. And we want to share them with you.
The programmers who create applications for the IBM i platform and its decades of predecessors were given a set of development tools from IBM with augmentation from third parties such as ARCAD Software, all hooked into a sophisticated operating system with an integrated relational database that let programmers focus on applications, not on the plumbing underneath them. And to be very precise, it let them focus on creating high quality applications that are tightly coupled to the business and that can change with them, which is the real reason this platform persists at more than 125,000 customers worldwide today.