Tag: APIs
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What Computers Do At Banks, deployment frequencies, some platform engineering, microservices nothing burger(?)
What Computers Do At Banks Here’s two diagrams from a 2021 BCG report on banking that show, basically, everything that IT does for the business part of retail banking. First, the “value streams,” or lines of business and products: Second, what the typical IT stacks look like to support these value streams: Pretty good stuff!…
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Spring Cloud Gateway: The Swiss Army Knife of Cloud Development – Hooking up your applications and the services they depend on, microservices or whatever.
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A presentation is just a document that has been printed in landscape mode
Presentations are just docs that were printed wrong Most presentation advice focuses on actual event of a speaker giving the presentation. In conference setting, you’re informing, making a point, and, hopefully, entertaining. In a corporate setting, the actual delivery of the presentation is not the primary purpose of a presentation. Instead, a presentation is used…
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When can we just profit and chill?
Real quick: I’m giving a talk tomorrow on how to run a developer platform group in large organizations, based on real world stories over the past seven years. You can watch it free tomorrow or just catch the recording: just register for it, free, and you’ll get all taken care of. # Share Price =…
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Structure and Control
Do you really like winging it, or do you like more structure? And, of course, the emptying of the waste book and links relevant to your interests. Suggested epigraph: “I don’t care that much.” Suggested theme song: Why Choose by Shopping First, this Platform Engineering Follow-up Thinking I think what I missed in my thinking…
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First, Belgian mayonnaise, and then: PHENOMENA, TRENDS AND BUSINESS MODELS SHAPING DIGITAL BUSINESS STRATEGIES
It’s one of my daughter’s birthday this weekend, she’s 9. The days go by! 7 Interviews At VMware Explore last week, Alex Williams and I did seven interviews. They were actually a presentation and then an interview. Check them out! Promo! First, I’m hosting a panel talk this week, online, with three people – we’ll…
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The #legacytrap kills flexibility – Coté’s Commonplace Book – Issue #52
Another take at writing up why app modernization is important for business, and the usual links to stuff and my recent podcasts, etc. Smuggling in Modernization I’m working on a project I call the #legacytrap. Trying to explain to executives (CIOs and non-IT executives) how important it is to modernize your old stacks of IT,…
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🗂 Link: Restaurant Birdcall, looking to add 10 locations in two years, raises $9M for tech
“The goal is to continue building the engineering team to focus on building technology that allows restaurants to operate at a higher efficiency,” he said. … Most of the technology focuses on back-of-house operations, though Newlin declined to share details about that technology. On the front end, customers place orders using kiosks or its mobile…
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🗂 Link: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
“This allows an insurance broker to close and bind a product in real-time,” which also lowers the cost of onboarding new members, Fowler says. Source: Nationwide CIO’s ride-along sparks innovation and pays dividends
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🗂 Link: Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos
With VMware Tanzu Mission Control, we are providing customers with a powerful, API driven platform that allows operators to apply policy to individual clusters or groups of clusters, establishing guardrails and freeing developers to work within those boundaries. Source: Introducing VMware Tanzu Mission Control to Bring Order to Cluster Chaos
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🗂 Link: Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown
Datadog is a rare company — every financial and business metric is best-in-class. Source: Datadog IPO | S-1 Breakdown
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🗂 Link: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover
“By 2024, three-quarters of large enterprises will be using at least four low-code development tools for both IT application development and citizen development initiatives,” the report said. “By 2024, low-code application development will be responsible for more than 65 percent of application development activity.” Source: Application Development Research Predicts Low-Code Tooling Takeover
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🗂 Link: Alternative Payment Methods Enable International Purchases
If people from other countries already visit your site and make purchases, you might think it isn’t necessary to adjust your payment methods for them. But you’d be wrong. For each international customer that makes a purchase, there could be others who abandon checkout because they aren’t comfortable with any of the options available. Source:…
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🗂 Link: Scale and velocity are driving the next generation of DevOps
This massive growth in scale has required an evolution in practices and organization to achieve success. Most of what technologists are aware of in this regard is labeled “DevOps,” but there is more nuance to it than that. The way infrastructure capacity is allocated becomes decoupled from specific hardware, so the infrastructure team has to…
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🗂 Link: CIO interview: Simon McNamara, chief administrative officer, RBS Group
Mobile banking is another key area of innovation, including NatWest’s personal finance app Mimo, which uses open banking application programming interfaces (APIs), artificial intelligence and data analytics to create a social feed that helps customers manage their money. Mimo is being beta tested with 5,500 customers. NatWest aims to extend the roll-out later this year.…
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Link: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site
“According to research by Evercore Group L.L.C., Booking.com’s “testing drives conversions across the whole platform at 2–3 times the industry average.” That means massive increases to their revenue and bottom line.” How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site https://blog.usejournal.com/how-booking-com-a-b-tests-ten-novenonagintillion-versions-of-its-site-25fc3a9e875b via Instapaper Source: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site
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Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go into a centralized log, such as Kafka, and then from there the various databases can pull what they need,…
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Link: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide
Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New Taipei City, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco Bay Area, São Paulo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, and Zurich. Source: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide
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Link: Electric car charging interoperability is the next big thing in mobility
The arrangement doesn’t mean EV owners need to run out and add a Hubject account. All of this should be invisible to the end user—Hubject’s actual customers are the charging networks or utilities. Its platform provides an API that different charging networks can use to make that interoperability painless for drivers. “Our software is middleware…
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