Posts from our platform engineers, COE leads, and the occasional relationship banker who has Opinions about credit workflows. No sponsored content. Light editing. Real names.
A walkthrough of the hybrid automation pattern we use to keep HR onboarding running when upstream vendors deprecate endpoints without warning.
Why we gave our developers a flow-based designer on the same runtime we use for BPMN. And how it changed our platform velocity.
Why our 11-day decision cycle became a 2.9-day decision cycle when we stopped forcing credit into a linear diagram.
How we test automation at the scale we now operate it, including the live DevCon 2026 demo where agentic desktop handled a real test failure end-to-end on stage.
The board put AI ROI on the standing agenda. We spent a weekend writing down what we actually believe. Here is the strategy that came out of it.
How we staff platform engineering for a 14 million customer bank without burning people out. It is mostly about saying no well.
A roundup of the posts above plus whatever our platform team was nerdsniping on that month. Unsubscribe link in every email. We check the analytics, we do not stare at them, and we have banned the phrase "data-driven" in the team channel for reasons the team will not elaborate on.