Bankloch

With the   increased competition in the financial services landscape (between banks/insurers, but also of new entrants like FinTechs and Telcos), customers are demanding and expecting a more innovative and fluent digital user experience. Unfortunately, most banks and insurers, with their product-oriented online and mobile platforms, are not known for their pleasant and fluent user experience. The   trend towards customer oriented services , like personal financial management (with functions like budget management, expense categorization, saving goals…​) and robo-advise, is already a big step in the right direction, but even then, managing financials is still considered to be a boring intangible and complex task for most people. Virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR)   could bring a solution. These technologies provide a user experience which is   more intuitive, personalised and pleasant , as they introduce an element of   gamification   to t...

The last couple of years, Docker and more general containers and container orchestration systems (like Kubernetes), are a very hot topic in the infrastructure and technology world. While most technical people, like software engineers and software architects, are already well acquainted with these terms, for managers and business people the importance of those technologies are still hard to grasp. This blog aims to introduce some   basic concepts   for non-technical people about Docker containers, and how it impacts an (your) organisation. Before diving in the details, some figures to show the explosiveness of the "container" trend in the IT landscape: More than   8 billion Docker containers   have already been   downloaded Docker Inc., the company behind Docker, was   valuated at $1 billion in 2015 , when the company reported less than $10 million in revenues. In early 2017, the revenues of the company are estimated between $25 mil...