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WebSphere Liberty and the value of WebSphere Hybrid Edition
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I have worked with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for the better part of 15 years. My experience with WAS has generally been fantastic, great up time, great performance, few if any failures to speak of, a truly rock-solid workhorse. However,…
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When AI Makes Things More Complex (And You Have to Say No)
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Reading time: 4 minutes Part of my ongoing series exploring real-world software development with AI. In my previous post, I discussed the challenge of keeping up with the volume of code AI can generate. This post covers a different challenge:…
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The Moment of Realisation
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Reading time: 8 minutes A strange thing happened this week while building software with AI: AI was helping me generate more code than I could comfortably read. AI Lets One Person Generate More Code Than One Person Can Comfortably Read…
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How to deploy your first Open Liberty app to OpenShift
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This guide steps you through the process of deploying a basic Open Liberty app to OpenShift Local on your PC. With a few modifications to the container build file, you can deploy a WebSphere Liberty app. This post takes around…
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How to install OpenShift Local on your Windows PC
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I have installed and reinstalled OpenShift Local multiple times for testing on both my desktop PC and laptop. This guide describes the condensed steps I followed to install OpenShift Local on my Windows 11 desktop PC. For a detailed guide…
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How to solve unsupported CipherSuite when using Java 17 in Open Liberty
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We recently deployed our first app to WebSphere Liberty using Java 17 to one of our test environments. We immediately started facing issues relating to SSL. As the dev team didn’t face these issues, we focussed on our test environment….
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A fantastic new feature allowing non-OS users to be used in MQ
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Perhaps my most long awaited and favourite feature recently introduced to IBM MQ (v9.2.1 CD or v9.3.0 LTS) is the UserExternal group or user authorization setting. This can be set when creating a new queue manager or for existing queue…
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