The Client is a leading private bank in the US, providing comprehensive banking, investment, mortgage, and commercial financial services to millions of customers, businesses, and government clients. Sparity implemented an enterprise-wide DevOps strategy to achieve faster development and deployment cycles and moved its legacy on-premises data centres to the private cloud.
Client: Banking & Finance
Services: DevOps, Cloud, Digital Transformation
Year: 2022
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Key Challenges
- The banking organization desired to create apps and websites that would respond to the changing needs of its customers
- They planned to build its technical infrastructure while abandoning slow mainframes and traditional technologies
- To combat inconsistent releases, multiple handoffs, and manual errors in the development of applications that took ages to resolve, the banking organization needed a solution that could resolve these issues and enable their organization to have rapid development and shorter time-to-market
Solution
- The banking organization adopted agile software development, establishing the groundwork for the adoption of DevOps and implement an enterprise-wide DevOps strategy
- Created cross-functional “SWAT” teams that analyzed the legacy applications and successfully implemented configuration management, automated critical processes, and improved the workflow of each app
- Leveraged microservices architecture and created rigorous and explicit guidelines to increase the speed of software delivery without compromising quality
- Built an on-demand infrastructure on AWS that enabled easy adoption of user feedback and upgraded the banking and financial services to a top-notch experience
- Leveraged advanced tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps to automate its delivery pipelines, software delivery, increase operational stability, and improve the developer experience as well
- Introduced chaos engineering into DevOps practices with a disruption tool called “Cloud Detour” to evaluate the resiliency and durability of the applications they design
- Implemented automated security checks into its DevOps pipeline (using Microsoft Security code analysis extensions, etc.) to accelerate the assessment of security vulnerabilities in its software
Benefits
- Frequent deployments and deploying on-demand
- Decrease in outages and downtimes, resulting in Faster time to market
- Facilitated Jenkins/DevOps reports that enable better decision-making & planning
- Automated numerous test scripts
- Reduce DevOps costs by 50%
- Reduced the overall IT infrastructure costs by modernizing the application through containerization
