About the Authors

Richard Hopkins and Kevin Jenkins are both executive IT architects in IBM’s U.K. services division. They first met in 2002 when Richard hired Kevin to do a few weeks’ worth of work performance testing a system for 80,000 concurrent users. The end result of the interview was a spirited argument and solution better than either of them had originally envisaged. They have been collaborating ever since.

They are both members of IBM’s U.K. & Ireland Technical Consulting Group, which advises IBM’s executives on technical matters. They are also named on the patents that describe IBM’s implementation of its Elephant Eater. Brownfield is the result of a number of years of thought and is designed to overcome the deficiencies in the IT industry’s ...

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