Building a bank from scratch in the Cloud
summary
Idea-to-production in ten months, launching Bulder Bank mobile-only on June 3 and onboarding batches of 100 customers, built on Google Firebase for client state and Google Kubernetes Engine for backend, with microservices in Go processing payments event-based and asynchronous through NATS streaming, using Knative for eventual serverless inside the cluster, Terraform and Helm for infra-as-code and deploys, and Prometheus/Stackdriver for observability — a scoped MVP that ships and runs in production.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to Builderbank
- 4:43Bank Goals and Structure
- 10:40Core Principles and Strategy
- 14:45Technical Architecture
- 22:23Kubernetes and Messaging
- 30:00Operators and Serverless
- 38:18Backend Development
- 45:32Security and Monitoring
- 54:11Project Reflection and Q&A
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