[TriLUG] Middleware: was: have a job - Python, Django, Postgres, Flask

[Rob Rousseau via TriLUG]

It originated from IBM to describe the "middle" layer between the backend
Database server and the frontend Web server. Typically, the application
server that would do the heavy lifting for websites, such as your share
holdings for Fidelity or computing actuarial numbers for insurance
companies and figuring which investments to make with it. IBM capitalized
on this with their Websphere offering, but later on Middleware came to
represent over 100 different types of "application" servers that handled
just about anything that wasn't a webserver or database. For example,
Cognos, ConnectDirect, Datastage/eGate/SeeBeyond, Inform, iPlanet/Mail,
LDAP/Oblix, Omnigate/Webconnect, OAS/Oracle Reports, Tumbleweed, Tuxedo,
WebLogic, Akamai, etc...
Former IGS Middleware Services Team Lead
Rob

On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 11:31 PM Steve Litt via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Alan Porter via TriLUG said on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:24:33 -0400
>
> >The place where I work, BitSight, has another job opening for a
> >middleware developer on the team that I work on.
>
> For a couple decades I've sought a definition of "middleware", and seem
> to come across several contradictory definitions. Could somebody please
> tell me what "middleware" means?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Summer 2022 featured book: Making Mental Models: Advanced Edition
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/mmm
> --
> This message was sent to: Rob Rousseau <ki4bke at nc.rr.com>
> To unsubscribe, send a blank message to trilug-leave at trilug.org from that
> address.
> TriLUG mailing list : https://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> Unsubscribe or edit options on the web  :
> https://www.trilug.org/mailman/options/trilug/ki4bke%40nc.rr.com
> Welcome to TriLUG: https://trilug.org/welcome