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...
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20 of 27 episodesEpisode 26 - Monolithic deployments
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...
Episode 25 - Virtual teams
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...
Episode 24 - Choosing Your Language
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...
Episode 23 - Open banking and APIs
Open banking and PSD2 have the potential to revolutionise banking. The ability for customers to be able to seamlessly share their financial...
Episode 22 - Deploying code rapidly and reliably
Starling generally deploys software to production at least once a day during working hours. How do we ensure that this deployment process is...
Episode 21 - Software architecture reliability at scale
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...
Episode 20 - Avoiding legacy code
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all large software systems will be increasingly made up of legacy code. But is this actually the...
Episode 19 – Automated vs human decision making
In this episode we discuss computerised decision making, from automation of human processes, to machine learning and AI. When do we let mach...
Episode 18 – Your questions answered
In this episode we discuss a variety of different topics that we have received requests to talk about on the podcast including the problems...
Episode 17 – How to organise engineering teams
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...
Episode 16 – Security revisited
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...
Episode 15 – How to use the Starling API
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...
Episode 14 – Incident management
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...
Episode 13 – How GDPR is protecting your data
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...
Episode 12 - Payment Services
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...
Episode 11 - Does AI & Machine Learning have a place in banking?
In this episode we discuss big data, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). How could these new technologies be used in a banki...
Episode 10 - Changing Architecture in a Live System
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...
Episode 9 - Building a Company Culture
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...
Episode 8 - How to Build a Banking App
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...