Migration from the mainframe monolith to cloud-first microservices

Mainframe modernization is hard. This is a fact. There is good reason that in the year 2020, mainframe systems are still prolific. Though, we know that change must come soon and that change must be safe. Business critical systems running on mainframe cannot stand to have downtime during a modernization effort.

In this installment of Dallas Cloud Native meetup series, we will hear from VMware Pivotal Labs's Shaun Anderson and Andrew Flamm and learn how their team has formulated an approach that is iterative and phased, so as to yield ROI in days and weeks, not months and years. Join us for a discussion about the process and the sharing of war stories.

Shaun is an Application Transformation Practice Lead at VMware Pivotal Labs. He spends most of his time slaying, starving and strangling monoliths and defining pragmatic solutions to complicated problems. He has a wealth of experience designing and building mission critical applications with technologies running the gamut from Akka to Zuul. He is the inventor of top down domain oriented design techniques including the Boris Diagram. Shaun also contributed to the curriculum and taught the replatforming and modernization sections of Pivotal’s Platform Acceleration Lab.

Andrew Flamm leads the Cloud Native Services for VMware Pivotal Labs. He is an Extreme Programming fanatic, a Stubborn optimist and a Lover of how technology (software!) is changing the way people live.