December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
537 pages
14h 2m
English
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Chapter 14. Building a Bank in a Year: Starling Bank Case Study
Greg Hawkins is an independent consultant on tech, fintech, cloud, and DevOps. He was CTO of Starling Bank, the UK mobile-only challenger bank from 2016–2018, during which the fintech start-up acquired a banking license and went from zero to smashing through the 100K download mark on both mobile platforms. He remains a senior advisor to Starling Bank today. Starling built full-stack banking systems from scratch, became the first UK current account available to the general public to be deployed entirely in the cloud. Voted the best bank in Britain in 2018—and again in 2019—in a survey of more than 27,000 consumers, Starling beat out High Street mainstay banks with hundreds of years of experience behind them a mere year after its launch.
As a startup Starling was able to do cloud native from the start, while most companies are looking to migrate existing operations to the cloud. It’s a complex and challenging process no matter where you’re starting from! We are including Starling’s story in part to illustrate what building a greenfield cloud native system looks like, but mainly how the same patterns can be used to compose many different kinds of transformation designs.
Greg Hawkins oversaw the creation of the cloud native platform as Starling’s CTO. He remains involved as a senior advisor, helping the bank grow and shape its cutting-edge services as it continues to disrupt the financial services industry. ...
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