[nwhatt]

It's not really clear if this advice is for within the enterprise (a company that maintains so many systems they spend millions to integrate them) or at the edge (a company that needs to integrate with multiple third parties). I can see the argument for the intra-enterprise work being valuable, but at the edge I'm less convinced.

[bbyars]

Good feedback. Most of the article is about integration inside an enterprise, although in the next installment I do talk about integration between organizations (hint: there are scenarios where I think low-code tools make sense there).

[chasil]

I arrived in my position in the late 90's, greeted by HP-UX, VAX VMS, and Unisys OS2200.

All of this was tied by our homegrown queue software.

Some years later, I was tasked with migrating HP-UX to Linux, in stages, and I was lucky enough to have found all the queueing source code, and I rebuilt it, imperfectly, on Linux. We hired back our past workers, including the original author, who made perfect my original port.

As the years have passed, I continued to improve this code, compiling with directives from "hardening-check" after bug hunts.

It has tied me to my role, but I suppose that I am happy here.