Tom Taulli is the author of Modern Mainframe Development: COBOL, Databases, and Next-Generation Approaches (O'Reilly Media - amzn.to/3EJxDhe) and The Robotic Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Implementing RPA Systems (http://amzn.to/2tURWJx). He has been programming since he was in high school, when he wrote computer programs for magazines (yes, in the 1980s, there were publications that had code listings!). When he got into college, he started a company that sold Windows software for exam preparation. He then founded other companies like Hypermart.net – which was the mid-1990s version of Shopify – that was sold to InfoSpace.com. Along the way,