A 1959 programming language, COBOL, is powering global finance and government systems. As experienced programmers retire, companies face a talent crisis. This has created a lucrative opportunity for new developers learning this older skill. Banks and agencies are paying top salaries to maintain these vital systems. AI is also being explored to help manage COBOL code.
Mainframes are the shit. They run almost all the financial transactions in the world using old reliable code such as Cobol, Algol, and JCL. They are also extremely hard to hack in comparison to things like servers.
Mainframes are the shit. They run almost all the financial transactions in the world using old reliable code such as Cobol, Algol, and JCL. They are also extremely hard to hack in comparison to things like servers.
Also, all hardware components are hot-swappable.
They have a lot of built in redundancy.