Financial Applications
Presentations
Shopify’s Architecture to Handle the World’s Biggest Flash Sales
How do you enable millions of entrepreneurs to run their businesses on your platform? And how do you deal with product launches that suddenly bring millions of requests per minute from one moment to the next?This talk will walk through how Shopify works under the hood using the customer journey...
Past Presentations
Scaling for the Known Unknown
Monzo’s recent crowdfunding was run entirely through its app, using the very same platform that runs the bank! How were we so sure we could handle the flood of users wanting to invest, without impacting the experience of those depending on it for everyday banking? In the weeks before the...
Panel: Bleeding Edge at Hyperspeed With No Breaks and No Breaches
Today’s fintech speakers are working with new tech, niche tech and new techniques in a regulated industry which has traditionally been hostile to such things. Even if we believe the benefits, what about the risks? How can you be safe and secure when you release many times a day or when you live...
Modern Banking in 1500 Microservices
Monzo runs over 1,500 microservices in production and that number continues to grow. Each has a single responsibility and well defined interfaces. It takes many, many distinct pieces of functionality to run a modern banking backend. This talk will explain how we build, operate, observe and...
Interviews
Habito: The Purely-Functional Mortgage Broker
Tell me about the work you are doing.
Habito is changing the way mortgages work in the United Kingdom. It's quite a complicated process to work through. About 70% of the market is intermediated, so it's a good place to build a consumer-friendly brand and fix problems like not being able to understand what an appropriate mortgage looks like or how repayments work -- in...
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