In my two decades of experience leading DevOps, Digital, and Agile transformations, I’ve observed that the path to modernisation is rarely a straight line. Organisations, particularly those in data-sensitive sectors, like banking, government, and healthcare, often find themselves at a crossroads. They need to innovate faster while maintaining rigorous security and reliability. This tension between speed and safety has traditionally forced companies to choose one over the other. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Flagsmith’s eBook on feature flags at enterprise scale. I wrote the introduction.
The argument in it: feature flags separate deployment from release, and that separation is what makes deployment frequency, one of the four DORA metrics, movable at all. Without it, a team can only deploy as often as it dares to release. With it, small changes go out several times a day and the blast radius of each one stays small.
Intdiuction the the eBook Moving to Modern Development Practices in Banking: A Playbook
Flagsmith’s playbook for banks that want to modernize how they build software without trading away the controls a regulator expects. I wrote the introduction.
Banking is where the tension between speed and safety is sharpest, and where the usual answer has been to pick safety and live with the release cycle. The playbook works through the alternative: continuous delivery, feature flags, platform engineering, and the audit and access controls that make all three acceptable in a regulated environment.
By Anna Redbond and Romano Roth on August 2, 2023
A lot of banks are moving to modern software development despite the traditional industry hurdles like compliance, regulations, and legacy architecture. The shared goal: becoming more adaptable to meet customers’ changing demands.
