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Modernizing the Future of Finance: A Kong-versation With Finastra

Finastra has ambitious goals – to open up the world of finance. As Joey White, SVP of technology for Finastra, says, “The future of finance is open. All of the currently closed systems within banking will need to open to serve a digital future.” To him, open means understanding what you don’t know, specifically, the particular modality of use and that change is the only constant.

From culture to business to innovation: leveraging cloud to reprogram banks, WSO2 | Finextra

In this 2 part series, Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer at WSO2 speaks to FinextraTV about the type of technologies that are conducive to self-disruption, what banks need to consider when revamping their technology and operations divisions to promote innovation, how this translates into a culture of innovation, and how migration to the cloud reinforce banks’ cybersecurity and resilience.

Using APIs to Build Robust Cloud-Native Infrastructures

The number of applications and services is increasing as companies face time-to-market pressure from customers. Application programming interfaces (APIs) are a key component of modern software architectures. APIs are tools that let companies share their data internally or with third-party services to create new value-driven products for customers.

You Are Measuring API Active Users Wrong

API providers need to understand how their consumers are using their APIs. Usage metrics are essential because they tell you about API adoption, how your API is growing over time, and which endpoints are seeing more (or less) use. When you look at API usage metrics, you should be measuring the active users on your API in the sense that most closely aligns with your service.

CLI Installer

While new cloud native architectures are incredibly feature-rich, they can come with a high barrier to entry. Many getting started tutorials are pages long and can take forever to complete. But these always start with the first step of performing an installation. In the spirit of making the installation of Speedscale as simple as possible, we have designed a new interactive installer as part of the speedctl command line interface.

Reprogramming the bank: Shifting gears on digital disruption, WSO2 | Finextra

In this 2 part series, Eric Newcomer, Chief Technology Officer at WSO2 speaks about self-disruption across the industry, what is meant by this and how this approach is helping FIs address business challenges. We learn how the internal disruption that comes with new technology strategies can benefit the customer, the type of strategies that could formalise this natural disruption to create a process of structured self-disruption, and how this fits in with the regulatory landscape.

The Stripe Developer Experience and Docs Teardown

In this article, we are going to explore why the Stripe developer experience is so passionately supported by thousands of developers globally. One of Stripe’s missions is to increase the GDP of the internet, and over the last decade, they’ve successfully executed 250 million API requests per day and over 91 billion requests per year through their APIs.