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Mainframe DevOps: My Summer On Broadcom’s Gen Team

By Saishravan Muthukrishnan posted 10 hours ago
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This summer, I had the opportunity to join the the Gen Product Team within Broadcom’s Mainframe Division as a summer Next-Gen Mainframer. Gen is a tool that provides a unified environment for developing and maintaining large-scale applications across multiple platforms. During my time here, I worked on modernizing Gen’s application deployment process by building a command-line utility called gendeploycli . This tool automates the deployment of Gen applications in containerized environments—equipping Gen to make another step forward in the modern DevOps adoption journey. Through this project, I gained experience with the Go programming language, collaborated ...
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Stepping Into Metal C: My Summer With Broadcom

By Kaylyn King posted 13 hours ago
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This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to join the Datacom team at Broadcom and work on a unique challenge: transitioning an existing assembly program to Metal C. While I had prior experience with C, C++, and some exposure to assembly in university, this was my first time diving into mainframe programming. The experience pushed me out of my comfort zone—and ended up being one of the most rewarding projects of my career so far. Background: What Is Metal C? IBM Metal C is a variant of the C programming language designed for low-level, system-level development on mainframes. It behaves like traditional C but allows direct manipulation of hardware via ...
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My Journey with Advanced Authentication and Mainframe Security

By Milad Jizan posted 14 hours ago
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My Journey with Advanced Authentication and Mainframe Security Hi, my name is MJ. As a Next-Gen Mainframer and computer science graduate from Northern Illinois University, I had the incredible opportunity this summer to contribute to cutting-edge mainframe security on the Advanced Authentication Method (AAM) QA Automation Team at Broadcom. This summer work deepened my technical knowledge and showed me how modern development practices can transform the way we test legacy systems. Mainframes are the backbone of enterprise computing, powering critical industries like finance, healthcare, transportation, and telecommunications. As cyber threats have grown more ...
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Automating the BlackDuck Process: My Summer at Broadcom

By Aima Salman posted 14 hours ago
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This summer, I had the exciting opportunity to work as a Software Engineer Summer Worker at Broadcom’s Plano, TX office. It was a hands-on, immersive experience that gave me invaluable exposure to real-world software development challenges. Not only did I sharpen my technical skills and broaden my understanding of industry best practices, but I also made lasting connections with a great team. The Problem: Manual, Time-Consuming Vulnerability Triage At the core of my time with Broadcom this summer was a project focused on automating the triage of security vulnerabilities flagged in third-party components used in Broadcom’s applications. ...
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QA Automation in Agile Development: My Summer Experience as a Broadcom Mainframer

By Thomas England posted 2 days ago
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As a Next-Gen Mainframer, I’ve always realized the importance of Quality Assurance (QA) as an integral part of any development process. The phrase “Customers don’t want to be treated as QA” couldn’t be more impactful and imperative; however, developers are human, after all, and they can sometimes overlook steps within this crucial task. In any product, especially a complex one, developers cannot plan for every possible issue that may arise after its release. The obvious answer to this problem involves thorough testing, but this answer raises another question: how comprehensive should this testing be? With time spent in the testing phase as the investment, ...
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DevOps Enhancements: My Summer on Broadcom’s NetMaster Team

By Sage Yanoff posted 3 days ago
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DevOps Enhancements: My Summer on Broadcom’s NetMaster Team This summer at Broadcom, I had the opportunity to join the NetMaster team—a group responsible for a powerful network monitoring tool that tracks mainframe connections. Heading into the summer-long role, I wasn’t sure what to expect, as the NetMaster team works on a wide variety of projects. I was excited to dive in, learn new skills and technologies, and contribute wherever I could. Vault as a Service: Secure Credential Management in Jenkins My first project involved integrating all of NetMaster’s Jenkins pipelines with Vault, a secure tool for storing credentials. Instead ...
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My Summer Experience at Broadcom

By Victor Taiwo posted 10 days ago
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Working at Broadcom this summer was a great experience that shaped my career growth and introduced me to a space where collaboration was at the forefront of the software we built. The work culture and sheer professionalism displayed by everyone working here were something that I admire. Broadcom employees were extremely receptive to helping newer members understand the environment we are in and how to leverage the opportunity. My team was nothing short of spectacular in the way they handled multiple projects with grace and made significant improvements every day. It was inspirational. The project we did was a Chrome extension inside of Broadcom’s mainframe support ...
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“Airtight” and “All-Angles”: Automating Tests for NetMaster on the Mainframe

By Michael Schafer posted Aug 09, 2024
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Michael Schafer: During my summer with Broadcom, I joined the NetMaster team. Like the name suggests, this team develops NetMaster, a powerful network monitoring tool for mainframe software. This tool allows mainframe users to monitor mainframe network connections and quickly address any networking issues, thereby minimizing the downtime of vital services. As I joined, the team was in the midst of developing the new NetMaster 13 release. To ensure this release is error free, timely, and aligned with customer expectations, the team is performing manual regression testing on the mainframe. This manual testing, however, is tedious, time consuming, and ...
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Next-Gen Mainframe

By Keegan Miller posted Aug 08, 2024
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My name is Keegan Miller and this was my first time being a next-gen mainframe at Broadcom and I enjoyed every second of it. The environment here at Broadcom allowed me to challenge myself and grow as a developer. I was fortunate enough to work with the 1.21 Jigawatts scrum team where I was tasked with two important projects. The first project was discovering discrepancies between the DDL generation between two company maintained products. This project was important because it allowed the team to preemptively discover issues before they were brought up by customers. In the second project, the team had me working on updating the automation framework ...
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New mainframer learns real-life difference and usefulness after Next-Gen Broadcom Summer Program

By Joshua Czipo posted Aug 08, 2024
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This summer I worked in the Next-Gen Mainframer Program with the Broadcom Mainframe Software Division. This opportunity has given me great experience in developing enterprise software at the professional level. I came into this internship with limited knowledge of mainframe technologies and left learning more than I ever could in any classroom. In addition it sparked a new interest in the mainframe which is so vital to the infrastructure of the modern world. I felt as though the project assigned to me was not just busy work but something that would actually be useful and expanded upon after my time was finished. The project was on the QA side of the ...
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“Airtight” and “All-Angles”: Automating Tests for NetMaster on the Mainframe

By Michael Schafer posted Aug 08, 2024
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Michael Schafer: During my summer with Broadcom, I joined the NetMaster team. Like the name suggests, this team develops NetMaster, a powerful network monitoring tool for mainframe software. This tool allows mainframe users to monitor mainframe network connections and quickly address any networking issues, thereby minimizing the downtime of vital services. As I joined, the team was in the midst of developing the new NetMaster 13 release. To ensure this release is error free, timely, and aligned with customer expectations, the team is performing manual regression testing on the mainframe. This manual testing, however, is tedious, time consuming, and ...
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Proving AI has the potential to greatly influence UX research

By Saskia Vanthof posted Aug 08, 2024
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This summer, I worked as a User Experience (UX) Research intern with the Mainframe Software Division of Broadcom. As the first-ever Research intern on the Mainframe UX team, it was an exciting opportunity to learn from and contribute to the talented UX team behind the software for some of the most impactful systems in the world. During my internship, I focused on a project titled "Smartly Integrate AI with UX Research," which aimed to explore how artificial intelligence can enhance the UX process within Broadcom. Additionally, I worked closely with a Principal UX researcher on the Precision Design System, conducting a large-scale UX research project on ...
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How I Went From Square One To A Level Of Working Proficiency For The Mainframe World

By Saashin Subramaniam posted Aug 07, 2024
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My name is Saashin, and I’m a rising senior at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This past summer, I was fortunate enough to be selected for Broadcom’s Next-Gen Mainframer Program in Lisle, where I focused on a project in mainframe security. Prior to this opportunity, I had no experience or even familiarity with mainframes, their software stack, or current purpose in today’s world of computing. However, being introduced to this area of software development has led me to thoroughly enjoy it. More specifically, my project’s focus this summer has been on creating a testing facility for one of Broadcom’s mainframe security products, which ...
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My Summer at Broadcom: Streamlining QA Automation and Diagnostic Reporting

By Dominick Dellecave posted Aug 07, 2024
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This past summer, I had the privilege of getting to learn and grow through Broadcom’s Next Generation Mainframer program. This program not only allowed for me to explore a plethora of new technical areas and the tools associated with them, but it also further advanced my larger professional skill set by allowing me to to work amongst and across large teams within the organization. With the vast amount of experience I gained this summer, there were a number of projects I got to dive headfirst into and make an instant impact on. However, perhaps none were more significant to my team than my work to comprehensively overhaul and streamline the Quality Assurance (QA) ...
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Can you “cherish” a summer Next-Gen Mainframe internship? You can if you’re this undergraduate coder

By Peizhao Mei posted Aug 07, 2024
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Hello folks, my name is Peizhao Mei, and I am pursuing my bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Pittsburgh. As an undergraduate student, I have longed to use theoretical knowledge in a practical setting, especially working for industry and making contributions to the community. This summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to be part of the Next Generation Mainframer Program, working side by side with the Zowe team at the Broadcom, Pittsburgh office. It was an exceptionally valuable and wonderful experience that I will cherish forever. Mainframe and Zowe Before diving into my journey, please allow me to introduce ...
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UI Development Experience at Broadcom

By Prisha Sharma posted Aug 06, 2024
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UI Development Intern Experience at Broadcom My name is Prisha and I had the wonderful opportunity of interning at Broadcom this past summer as a SWE Intern. I worked as an UI developer working with the WatchTower Team. I’ve been involved in standups with the Dashboard Team for WatchTower while developing my own feature for the 1.2 WatchTower release: ML Insights. This new page, which will be integrated into the WatchTower settings, simplifies the creation of monitoring rules for metrics. It enables machine learning on specific metrics and limits the creation of alerts based on the severity set on the rule. Instead of manually editing a configuration ...
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Automated Testing: The Future of Mainframing

By Jeffrey Wong posted Aug 05, 2024
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Mainframes. Big Iron. The technology is over 60 years old, yet it remains critical for handling most of the world’s transactions. We’re talking about credit cards, banking, airlines, health care, the government, and even new technology like mobile applications (CA Technologies 3). The relevance of Mainframes was never the question, but their age indicates they need modernization to match today’s standards. As such, our team is integrating new methods to implement modern software/source control/testing, updating security, and experimenting with generative AI to help modernize the mainframe. My time here placed me in this process, where I worked on automated testing. ...
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