Adopting APIs & Microservices at a Major Bank (Part 2)
summary
A major Canadian bank builds an in‑house API Foundation on an open‑source light framework, running on Kubernetes private cloud with an internal marketplace and mandatory governance; it adds GraphQL support, an embedded micro gateway (sidecar pattern) and a service mesh plus with light proxies and a Jenkins extension called LightBot. Early pilots show 50–70% cost savings per integration and the platform is live in dev with production rollout underway.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:17Nordic Event
- 3:05ServiceOriented Architecture
- 10:07Establish Guiding Principles
- 10:46What did we build
- 11:27What did we do
- 13:55Distributed gateway approach
- 15:02Service mesh
- 15:45Service mesh vendors
- 18:02Act like a technology company
- 18:44How are we doing
- 20:15Tips
- 21:39Paradigm Shift
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