
Episode 27 - Ethics in technology
The software engineering industry is increasingly acknowldging the importance of ethics in technology. How does this apply to Starling Bank?...
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Building an entirely new kind of bank doesn’t happen overnight – and it takes a village. At Starling Bank, our village is populated by a diverse team of engineers and developers working toge...

The software engineering industry is increasingly acknowldging the importance of ethics in technology. How does this apply to Starling Bank?...

Up till now Starling has deployed its back-end server code as a single entity, even though it is split into multiple different services. As...

With COVID-19 confining many of us to our homes we are taking a look at how Starling Bank is coping with this rather unusual situation. How...

One of the biggest decisions that you have to make when starting a large software project is which language or languages to write it in. In...

Open banking and PSD2 have the potential to revolutionise banking. The ability for customers to be able to seamlessly share their financial...

Starling generally deploys software to production at least once a day during working hours. How do we ensure that this deployment process is...

In the very first episode of the first series of this podcast we talked about how we ensure that the software architecture that we use at St...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that all large software systems will be increasingly made up of legacy code. But is this actually the...

In this episode we discuss computerised decision making, from automation of human processes, to machine learning and AI. When do we let mach...

In this episode we discuss a variety of different topics that we have received requests to talk about on the podcast including the problems...

What’s the best way to organise an engineering team? In this episode we share how we organise our engineers into teams that enable them to d...

One year after we recorded our previous podcast on security we return to the topic of security to see what more we have learned in the past...

In this episode we present a guide to using the Starling API. We explain how you can connect to the API and the tools that can help you crea...

We discuss how Starling manages incidents, such as loss of app functionality caused by a bug or a fault at a third party, in order to get a...

What is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and why was there such a fuss about it at the end of May? We look at what the new regu...

Using our APIs we built Payment Services to allow our clients to benefit from fast and convenient payments. In this episode we look at how w...

In this episode we discuss big data, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). How could these new technologies be used in a banki...

In this episode we discuss the how you can have the confidence to change code that is live and in use, even when operating something as sens...

In this episode we discuss company culture. When you’re running a startup bank do you adopt the culture of a bank or the culture of a startu...

In this episode we discuss how our banking app has been developed, and what we’ve learnt along the way. We look at the differences between a...

In this episode we discuss how the design of our current account app has developed since its inception. Where do we draw our inspiration fro...

What happens when a development environment that wants to implement agile and lean practices meets a traditional and conservative sector suc...

In episode 5, we chat about the existing UK and global banking framework and how we connect the back-end code to it. Services such as direct...

How will Starling plan to scale the bank from 1,000 users to 1,000,000 and beyond? We look into the future and ask: what sort of challenges...

In this episode we discuss the security threats that a cloud-based bank can face. Are they different to the security threats faced by tradit...

This week’s episode is around the APIs that Starling Bank has made available to the wider world. Why did we decide to open up our banking pl...

To kick off the first Starling Developer Podcast, we talk about how we ensure technical reliability and availability of service to our banki...