The topic microservices has been a hype topic for the last several years and many developers are using this concept when structuring and implementing code nowadays. However, as always, every techno...

The modernization of applications is done in multiple steps. The previous articles described how to convert a 10+ years old Java EE into an Open Liberty application. This article explains how to ch...

Open Liberty is a modular open source Java runtime. WebSphere Liberty is IBM’s commercial offering based on Open Liberty. There are reasons why you should consider using Open Liberty. One of the bi...

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...