In this session on the virtual couch, we invited Stew Francis to discuss how our Runtimes have evolved to be easier to use by people that have never met IBM Z before. Stew has quite a history in that area as he also worked a lot on the CICS Explorer and now works on technology and function that help Developers to interact with IBM Z, like Maven and Gradle, whilst also helping system Programmers to automate and script their interaction with Z using Ansible.