/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/authors/alex-yale-loehr/ Recent content on Digital.gov Hugo en-us /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/07/03/vets-gov-a-modern-software-development-environment-in-government/ Mon, 03 Jul 2017 15:36:05 -0400 /preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2017/07/03/vets-gov-a-modern-software-development-environment-in-government/ When people think of government software, they often think of COBOL and PowerBuilder 5, with manual software deploys every three to six months on a fixed number of machines in a government-run data center. This perception is sometimes justified, but sometimes entirely wrong. Regardless, the perception makes many developers reluctant to work for the government