Tech at Discover

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Discover Financial Services President and CEO Roger Hochschild introduces the Discover Technology Experience.

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.

Learn how to set up mutation testing for your Java applications

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

The why, what, and how of reactive programming.

Learn about this workaround for retry configurations in Spring applications.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.