From sovereignty and security to governance and compliance, banking in the cloud demands new ways of thinking and working. Traditional banks, digital banks, and banking as a service (BaaS) providers alike need to make well-informed decisions to ensure cloud-based applications are robust and resilient. However, it’s not always easy to navigate the many options and […]
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Canary Release and Deployment Traditional big-bang software releases are stressful for all teams including developers, quality assurance, platform, and production support. Canary release and deployment overcomes this. It improves quality, confidence, and overall business value to the customer when releasing new features. Figure 1 outlines the canary release and deployment process workflow using Istio. Key […]
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Our educational series, ‘Champions of Cloud: Charting FSIs Forward,’ is born from the resounding success of our event in partnership with AWS and PayNet in August 2023, which was dedicated to Bank Negara Malaysia’s (BNM) release of Appendix 10 (Formerly CTRAG) within its Risk Management in Technology (RMiT) Policy Document. The overwhelming enthusiasm and engagement […]
Istio is a leading service mesh solution with a proven track record of successful use cases in production. The Istio community is prolific, dynamic, and continues to introduce new features very frequently. Istio is possibly the most feature-rich solution on the market and has a mature ecosystem of tools and vendors. Service Mesh Comparison With […]
What are the Benefits of Service Mesh? A service mesh is a cloud-native infrastructure layer used to manage service-to-service communication. It is responsible for the reliable delivery of requests through the complex topology of distributed services that comprise a modern cloud-native application. Behavioural insights and operational control over application service ecosystems are provided, offering a […]
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As a company grows, data-related problems can arise. These might include organisational silos, a lack of data sharing, and poor understanding of what data means outside the context of its business domain. Incompatible technologies can also be an issue, hindering actionable insights, and it can be difficult to push data through ‘extract, transform, load’ (ETL) […]
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Modernisation is a critical success factor for cloud transformation. But the transition from monolithic legacy programs to cloud-native applications can be a challenge. Developers must learn to manage applications using loosely linked microservices. Simultaneously, operations teams must manage new cloud-native applications in larger hybrid and multi-cloud settings. Istio service mesh offers a powerful and effective […]
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If you’re happy with your company’s data analytics capabilities and you’re using data to drive business decisions effectively, you can stop reading now. Unfortunately, few are in this category. In our experience, even companies with sophisticated data architectures sometimes struggle to use their data. The following three scenarios may sound painfully familiar. Company A: Sophisticated, […]
The work in progress (WIP) concept originated in the Lean manufacturing movement. In both a financial and operational sense WIP is considered a form of waste. It’s work that has been done and paid for but is providing no benefit to the customer or the company. WIP is an even more insidious problem in software […]
Poor cohesion between engineers, product owners, and executive teams can be a limiting factor in software development. It often leads to two problem scenarios: 1. Your Company Struggles to Build Quality Software The problem is not staff – you have talented engineers, knowledgeable agile professionals, and top business leadership. They are all paid at or […]
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