Perspectives
Engineering insights, architectural deep-dives, and perspectives on AI, platform engineering, and modern systems.
The Strangler Fig Playbook for Core Banking
Core banking modernisation works when the new platform grows around live operations, proving each boundary before legacy capability is retired.
Why Agentic AI Initiatives Fail and What Survivors Share
Agentic AI initiatives survive when teams constrain autonomy, encode governance into runtime paths, and measure production behaviour before scale.
Read MoreModel interoperability as regulatory expectation: a stress-exit pattern for AI in financial services
The case for model interoperability in financial services: abstraction layer, regression tests, and tested stress-exit plans, on existing banking precedent.
Read MoreBeyond monolithic AI controls: a classification framework for financial services
A four-tier framework (Assistive, Augmented, Semi-autonomous, Peer) for proportionate AI governance in financial services, with controls matched to each autonomy tier.
Read MoreDORA Metrics Explained: SPACE & Productivity
Developer productivity has become a polite name for the metric a CIO is allowed to ask about. DORA and SPACE are useful, but only after the harder conversation has been had: whether the work the team is measuring is the right work, and whether the velocity it is chasing buys back the audit cost it generates.
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