By Avik Dasgupta Manila recently beat Mumbai in the global outsourcing race and became the only non-Indian city in the top 7 of the Tholons International Top 100 Outsourcing Destinations report. The 2015 edition of the report had 8 cities from Philippines making the top 100 list. Today, the country’s BPO sector employs more than 1mn people and the industry’s …
Business Event Processing for z/TPF System
By Madhur Arya and Ashok Bhardwaj What is a Business Event? A business event is an occurrence of certain state in a system or software application that may be important to other sub-systems within the system or external systems or agents. Distributed systems have quite mature capabilities for business events that help a business to take agile decisions. Consider an inventory …
The Why and How of Continuous Integration
By Pankaj Srivastava Continuous Integration is a development engineering practice that integrates code after each check-in done by developers into a shared repository and helps to find out code errors & code breaks early before it hampers the development process of other developers. It is a myth that Continuous Integration is an agile methodology practice. A development engineering practice is not …