<b>When big boss talks about technologies ...</b><br><br>NAB has spent the pa...

Terrence Miao - 2016-11-14 06:55:28+1100 - Updated: 2016-11-14 06:55:28+1100

When big boss talks about technologies ...

NAB has spent the past 14 months completely rewriting its online banking architecture, culminating in the release today of its new mobile banking app for iOS.

Underneath the hood of the shiny new apps lies a new, microservices-based architecture that replaces a "monolithic" piece of bespoke code that NAB's online banking platform had run on for the past 18 years.

Its new architecture is supplemented by tools like Jenkins, Netflix's Histrix and Chaos Monkey technologies, Atlassian's quality assistance, and the Axway API gateway layer ...

How NAB is rebuilding online banking, piece by piece

Kieran Simpson - 2016-11-14 10:38:17+1100

I think I vomited in my mouth. NAB still has to address the underlying cultural problems. The use of Axway is one of the biggest bottlenecks in the CD pipeline. While there are uses of microservices in the bank, there's more and more bureaucracy added every day. This article is a fluff piece as a team of devs took 14 months to do what I did in 6. Not that I'm boasting, but I think we need to put the NAB FIGJAM in perspective.

Kieran Simpson - 2016-11-14 10:38:49+1100 - Updated: 2016-11-14 10:39:37+1100

As a funny aside, in the Android NAB app IO work is being done on the UI thread. I still remember CVDV losing his shit at Alvin Kwee for doing that at TU. I choked on my coffee when the login spinner started sputtering.

Terrence Miao - 2016-11-14 10:53:54+1100

haha, I think Alven Kwee is on the path to Tech Lead role sometime in Post. He is the longest served dev in his team now :-)