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Cloud Journey Optimization

Bridging the chasm between Cloud-Native and the Mainframe

Part 1: Introduction

5 min readMar 25, 2024

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Bridging the chasm between Cloud-Native and the Mainframe

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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

Portability of applications across Kubernetes distributions, part 2

Java frameworks that make portability a reality

8 min readFeb 14, 2022

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Portability of applications across Kubernetes distributions, part 2

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John Alcorn
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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

Portability of applications across Kubernetes distributions, part 1

Portability experiences with the operator

9 min readDec 17, 2021

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Portability of applications across Kubernetes distributions, part 1

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John Alcorn
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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

An update on the Stock Trader cloud-native application

2021 was an eventful year

5 min readDec 7, 2021

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An update on the Stock Trader cloud-native application

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John Alcorn
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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

The IBM Stock Trader operator, part 3: UI integration and final thoughts

Learn how to integrate your operator into the OpenShift console UI

9 min readMay 14, 2020

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The IBM Stock Trader operator, part 3: UI integration and final thoughts

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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

The IBM Stock Trader operator, part 2: Development

Learn how to develop an umbrella operator like the one for the IBM Stock Trader sample

7 min readMay 10, 2020

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The IBM Stock Trader operator, part 2: Development

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John Alcorn
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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

The IBM Stock Trader operator, part 1: Usage

Learn how to use the umbrella operator for the IBM Stock Trader sample

6 min readApr 21, 2020

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The IBM Stock Trader operator, part 1: Usage

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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

So you want customized WebSphere container images? Here’s how!

Customers often want to create customized, curated container images of both traditional WebSphere Application Server (tWAS) and…

7 min readMar 11, 2020

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Open Liberty operator

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John Alcorn
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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

IBM Stock Trader — A Refresher

The IBM Stock Trader application is a cloud native sample, where you can create various stock portfolios and add shares of stock…

6 min readOct 14, 2019

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IBM Stock Trader — A Refresher

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John Alcorn
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AI+ Enterprise Engineering

Microservice Observability with MicroProfile 3 on OpenShift

When adopting a microservices architecture, like in IBM Stock Trader, one of the key benefits of such an approach is the Observability…

19 min readAug 26, 2019

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UI showing six portfolios

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John Alcorn

John Alcorn

Member of the Cloud Journey Optimization Team at Kyndryl. Usually busy writing/testing code, or teaching others what I’ve learned.

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