Mainframe Workloads Fast Track to Agility

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Course description

This course covers the overall path of evolving mainframe workloads into agile services. It also covers the macroservices created by tool-based workload migrations and their agility, cost reduction, and risk mitigation benefits. It further covers how to decompose them into microservices.

• Course level: Intermediate
• Duration: 75 minutes

Activities

This course includes presentations and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

• Describe the evolution of mainframe monoliths into agile services.
• Use tool-based workload migration to help customers get into agile macroservices architecture.
• Discuss customer agility, cost reduction, and risk mitigation benefits of macroservices architecture.
• Explain to customers how to further optimize macroservices architecture into microservices where appropriate.

Intended audience

This course is intended for the following learners:

• Customers (solutions architects, developers, and product owners) who have mainframe modernization requirements
• AWS Partner Network (APN) solutions architects who work with customers to plan and implement mainframe modernization projects
• Amazonians who work with customers to understand modernization drivers and plan and implement mainframe modernization projects

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:

• Fundamental level understanding of mainframes
• Fundamental level understanding of the AWS Cloud

Course outline

Evolving Mainframe Workloads to Agile Services

• Evolution to Agile Services
• Data Store Evolution for Agile Services
• Mainframe Strangling Workload by Workload

Tool-Based Workload Migration to Agile Macroservices

• Tool-Based Workload Migration
• Creating Macroservices
• Timeline to Agility
• Macroservices with Automated Refactoring to AWS Mainframe Modernization
• Macroservices with Mainframe-Compatible Replatforming

Macroservices Agility, Cost Reduction, and Risk Mitigation Benefits

• Agility Gains with Macroservices
• Cost Efficiency and Risk Mitigation with Macroservices
• The 12 Agility Attributes Needed for Mainframe Workloads
• Short-Term Architecture with the 12 Agility Attributes
• Optimizing and Innovating for More Agility

Extracting Microservices

• Microservices
• Extracting Microservices
• Peeling Microservices with Blu Insights
• Peeling Microservices with Micro Focus Analyzer