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Mike Loukides

Mike Loukides is Vice President of Content Strategy at O'Reilly Media, Inc. He's particularly interested in programming languages, Unix and what passes for Unix these days, and system and network administration. Mike is the author of System Performance Tuning and a coauthor of Unix Power Tools. Most recently, he's been writing about data and artificial intelligence, ethics and the future of programming. He's also a pianist, a ham radio operator and a lover of birds.

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Rethinking Programmer Education for Today’s Coders

The proliferation of low-code and no-code applications are changing the landscape for software. In the past decade, growth in these areas has empowered employees to generate solutions at the speed of a digital world, regardless of their technical background. This raises several questions: What kind of programmers do businesses really need? Should they still rely […]

Nov 19, 2021 · 3 min

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Why It’s Time to Migrate Away From COBOL

Every few years an alarm goes up about the shortage of COBOL programmers, and then it dies down. While it’s hard to tell whether this cycle occurs because programmers are found or because other solutions are identified, the latest resurgence of interest is at least in part due to the pandemic and state governments’ use […]

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