Tech at Discover

Join Discover creative Kevin Rogers as he finds out what open source is and why it's important. Kevin is joined by Roland Krocin who explains how cooking up grandma's spaghetti can be a delicious metaphor.

While it’s easy to think that you are exempt from thinking about accessibility because you’re only creating internal products, the truth is that accessibility affects more people than we know and is all our responsibility.

Learn about the Accessibility Theme Builder open source tool that builds accessibility into the design and development process.

Angel Diaz was named a winner in the esteemed 2024 HITEC 100 list honoring the most influential and distinguished Hispanic professionals in technology.

Explore the challenges for estimating project timelines, see the reasons behind the difficulty, and hear valuable insights to improve your ability to estimate future timelines.

While it's tempting to start your scrum team off doing a trial run of scrum, we think there’s a better approach. Read this article to learn why to avoid sprint zero—and what to do instead.

In our most recent automation roundtable, people across industries came together to talk about recent automation headlines, generative AI use cases, automation governance, and more.

Trident 2.0 is a highly integrated, autonomous pipeline for building, testing, deploying and releasing software to production that was created in-house.

“In this series of short videos, Geoff Godwin covers five solid principles you can use to improve your coding practices.”

Learn how a Discover technology hub on the south side of Chicago is reimagining how talent is built at Discover.

Learn about the Hub-and-Spoke model that Discover uses to scale automation practices across the company.

In this video, Lise Noble, Distinguished Engineer at Discover, shares what drives her passion for accessibility in design and open source.

In this video, Angel Diaz, Discover Vice President for Technology Capabilities and Innovation, discusses how the company uses open source principles to support the people, processes and technology behind its products.

Discover was awarded the Spread the Word Award by FINOS to recognize the work that Discover has done in the open source fintech space, particularly around its sponsorship of the Global Accessibility Awareness Day Hackathon.

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has recognized Discover Financial Services with its highest accreditation based on the Discover skills development program .

In this talk from PlatformCon 2023, hear how Discover created a better developer experience by creating a singular path for developers to follow, to accomplish a specific task.

This blog post highlights the journey we took to build and open source the Accessibility Theme Builder project.

In this discussion, Dr. Angel Diaz, an open source pioneer spanning two decades of technology democratization, dives into the ways that companies are using open source to drive modernization across the enterprise and power digital transformation at scale.

In this conference talk, Lise Noble talks about how open source is influenced and improved by designers.

Learn about the winning solution of the Fintech Open Source Foundation’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) Hackathon.

Get all the answers you need about our Automation Roundtable Conversations.

In this video, Angel Diaz, VP of Technology Capabilities & Innovation, talks about how Discover brings together the customer journey with engineering principles, open source, and more.

Discover automation engineers attended the Bank Automation Summit. Watch the video of their panel: Automation Operations: Use Cases for Transformation.

Learn how to build APIs that your consumers can actually consume.

Meet Lise Noble, a Distinguished Engineer of UI/UX at Discover as she discusses accessible design, Theme Builder, and the power of design thinking."

Learn how Discover uses human-in-the-loop robotic process automation to alleviate manual tasks and free team members to work on innovation that matters.

Discover contributes open DesignOps tools to advance accessibility and improve design practices for everyone.

What makes an API good or bad? Watch Geoff's video to find out.

This article covers how we started breaking free from end-to-end testing by using contract testing.

Create React App's best days are behind it. What does that mean for you and building React applications?

Like the popular Fallacies of Distributed Computing, you can't trust everything you hear about API management.

We’ve all heard about APIs, but what exactly are they and how do they work? Watch Geoff's video to find out.

The unprecedented convergence of global changes continues to impact the focus of tech teams. How can your technology company be prepared to succeed in 2023? Hear from Ed Calusinski, VP of Tech Strategy at Discover about what will put you ahead this year.

How can a sand castle illustrate the interplay between the maker and the manager? Watch Geoff's video to find out.

Common pitfalls of creating a cloud architecture strategy--and what to do instead.

Hear why Discover decided to formally join the Linux Foundation and FINOS.

Learn why APIs and microservices are so distinctly different and why you need to account for both in your technology strategy.

Hear why technology leaders at Discover believe building your craft and continuously learning is the key to your success.

Nick Kotzamanis gets specific in how the Dojo forms to deliver transformation at the place where skilled guidance meets actual product backlog.

This blog post explores the historic background of the dojo concept, the translation of its key concepts into the modern model of business group transformation, and how Discover Dojos are successfully using this high context transfer of practical knowledge and experience in product teams throughout the company.

Keith Nielsen, Director of Cloud Architecture at Discover Financial Services, shares how Discover is using Kubernetes to secure its cloud operations.  

As you examine potential content and code for reuse, ensure that the asset meets these seven characteristics.

Hear from Amir Arooni, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, about how Discover is embracing open source.

A perspective on descaling organization

A comprehensive API strategy should consider API creation, consumption, enablement, discoverability, and more. This article covers ways to approach crafting a multidisciplinary API strategy.

The first part in a four-part series about transforming Discover to an agile company. This part covers the problem Discover was facing.

In this tutorial, I show you how to write tests based on Scala that can be executed as a standalone process or using a Gradle plugin called Gatling.

Agile coach, Carl Rogers shares his decision-making approach to scaling teams (and when not to).

In Part 3 of his series on tech debt, Discover application architect Geoff Godwin shares some tips on how to build amazing products, even when faced with mounting technical debt. Geoff details how thoughtful, modular design can help.

Nick Kotzamanis talks about the expected outcomes that the team started with when undergoing a digital transformation with Dojos.

In Part 2 of his series on tech debt, Discover application architect Geoff Godwin does a deep dive on coding best practices to help software developers and application engineers avoid some types of tech debt.

The why, what, and how of reactive programming.

This article explains what I learned about technical debt while engaging with engineering teams and highlights why and how teams and leaders can reduce tech debt to create a smooth journey for your customers.

Teams often focus on technology as simply delivering and building new features and fail to factor in the underlying costs of infrastructure when building out product plans.

Learn how to set up mutation testing for your Java applications

Learn about tools and methods to implement in your workflow to enable localization and versioning of resources to remove shared architecture limitations.

Learn how we improved our developer experience by creating better documentation.

Learn about this workaround for retry configurations in Spring applications.

Reasons why static testing should be given the same level of weight and focus as dynamic testing.

In this article, Praveen Erode Mohanasundaram discusses how you can use contract testing to reduce reliance on expensive end-to-end tests and complex test environments.

In the first episode of A Moment of Your Time, Discover application architect Geoff Godwin provides a definition of tech debt and the snowball effect that can happen if it's not addressed in an effective, time-efficient manner.

Learn how Discover is embracing reuse to make developing easier for our engineering workforce.

The pros, the cons, and when to use the monorepo pattern.

Software reuse of existing artifacts to build new software components improves speed and quality in feature and system delivery while encouraging effective use of your resources.

Learn about the different types of technical debt and evaluate how much debt is too much for your team.

Module federation allows a JavaScript application to dynamically run code from another bundle or build, on client and server.  With module federation, modules in a distributed system can be shared by shipping critical shared pieces as large or small as you would like.

Learn how we achieved millions in annual hours returned in addition to tens of millions in annual financial benefits realized, both in cost avoidance and direct financial impact/hard savings.

Recap from the technical conference in Detroit on Oct. 26-28, 2022.

Steps to take as your team evolves towards One Team wholeness.

Feature engineering is the process of using domain knowledge, mathematics, and statistics to extract features (also called explanatory variables or predictors) from raw data via data mining techniques.