There are many reasons why you should consider to modernize applications. One reason is to provide better experiences for users to make them more productive. This article is part of a series of ar...

Application modernization is a journey. There is no magic. Modernizing applications in several little steps is the approach that I recommend. In this article I describe how to modernize WebSphere T...

In a previous blog Improving operational Efficiency through Application Modernization I described how to containerize a Java application from 2010 via IBM’s Cloud Transformation Advisor tool. Trans...

Application modernization is a journey. It’s difficult enough to improve and refactor your own code. Modernizing 10+ years old code written by other developers is even harder. That’s why I recommen...

Do you want to know what rabbits have to do with app modernization? Check out my previous blog Application Modernization and Rabbits or watch the video. The production of the video was a lot of fu...

Do you want to know what rabbits have to do with app modernization? Let me explain. If this article is too long, you can also watch the 1:40 min video. Earlier this year I got my children two rab...

IBM provides a nice workshop that demonstrates how to modernize legacy WebSphere applications with Liberty. The workshop explains how to deploy applications on OpenShift. This article describes how...

Quarkus is a Kubernetes native Java stack crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards. Since Quarkus applications start very fast and consume little memory, they are well suited for...

New Quarkus applications can be created in several ways, for example via CLI or the Start Coding page. Since applications are usually run in containers, Dockerfiles are created automatically. Howev...

I’ve been working on app modernization recently and had to get some older Java EE applications to work. In order to do this, I’ve used containers which was much faster than configuring my machine f...