Building a bank on Kubernetes, vol II

I discuss what we've learnt at Monzo from running a microservices architecture on Kubernetes at scale for over 2 years.

Video @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXt5O__b5t8

Transcript

1. Building a Bank with Kubernetes (vol. II) Miles Bryant (@milesbxf) 12/02/2019
4. https://monzo.com/blog/2016/09/19/building-a-modern-bank-backend/
9. https://www.moneywise.co.uk/blog/edmund-greaves/the-day-crooks-tried-to-buy-600-champagne-my-debit-card
11. Our Environment
12. Extensibility
13. Observability is important
14. Things can go very wrong https://github.com/hjacobs/kubernetes-failure-stories
15. Things can go very wrong
16. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
17. Summary Kubernetes has massively helped us build a modern bank backend Observability is really important When Kubernetes goes wrong, it can go really wrong Running Kubernetes “the hard way” has helped us understand how to fix it
18. We’re hiring www.monzo.com/careers
19. Questions?