Re:IRS’ 60-Year-Old IT System Failed on Tax Day Due to New H...
by dx034 on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @09:36AM
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Most big banks run on COBOL, new Fintechs run on micro-services powered by Go, JS or whatever's trendy at the moment. I trust software with a proven track record of several decades with no considerable downtime more than architecture that's currently considered to be "best practice".
NB: Don't object any of the new languages, I've never written code in COBOL or for a mainframe. But I've also never developed software with that kind of requirements.
NB: Don't object any of the new languages, I've never written code in COBOL or for a mainframe. But I've also never developed software with that kind of requirements.