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API Governance as the AI Multiplier, Part 2: People – The Governance Structure We Need

George Mitry | May 12, 2025

This blog post examines how your organization’s approach to its people and organizational structure may need to change to support the AI revolution.

Cloud

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API Governance as the AI Multiplier, Part 3: Process – The Framework and Workflows We Need

George Mitry | May 12, 2025

This blog post examines the second axis, how the processes used to enforce API governance may need to change in your organization to support the adoption of AI.

Cloud

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API Governance as the AI Multiplier, Part 4: Technology – Governed Systems for the AI Era

George Mitry | May 12, 2025

This blog post examines the second axis, how the processes used to enforce API governance may need to change in your organization to support the adoption of AI.

Cloud

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Discover Shows Up Big at Women Impact Tech

By Discover Technology Staff | May 07, 2025

Discover was a proud sponsor of the 2025 Women Impact Tech conference in Chicago. Check out a highlight reel of the incredible event.

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3 Keys to Unlocking Operational Efficiency: Automation, AI & Modernization

Sathishkumar Palanisamy | April 29, 2025

Learn how automation, AI, and technology modernization efforts will increase operational efficiency in your organization.

Automation

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6 Fintech Trends to Watch for in 2025

Angel Diaz | January 29, 2025

I'm most excited about the fintech trends that I believe will help Discover deliver faster, more secure, resilient technology that benefits our customers. Here are the 6 trends that I see taking off in 2025.

Cloud

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3 Steps to Optimizing Cloud Costs

By Discover Technology Staff | December 10, 2024

How Discover got serious about reducing cloud costs to save $20M+

Cloud

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Implementing an ACH Notification of Change

Pradeep Jain | December 09, 2024

The article gives an overview of ACH and NOC, how the flow of information happens, and then explains two approaches financial institutions can take towards NOC: reactive or proactive.

Cloud

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How Discover completed a technology and cultural transformation

By Discover Technology Staff | November 21, 2024

This post highlights Discover's migration journey, focusing on the technology changes and updates we made, the steps we took to ensure adoption at the enterprise-wide level, and the benefits we’ve experienced so far from our transformation journey.

Cloud

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New Open-Source Tool Improves Optical Character Recognition Technology

By Discover Technology Staff | September 30, 2024

Learn about a new tool from Discover that improves Optical Character Recognition technology to handle in-clearing process errors.

Open Source

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GenAI Case Study: How Discover Reduces Risk with GenAI

Multiple Authors | September 23, 2024

Learn how a team at Discover used generative AI to improve the customer experience while reducing risk.

Cloud

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Creating Career Opportunities for Chatham Customer Care Center Employees

By Discover Technology Staff | August 26, 2024

Hear from apprentices in the Chatham Technology Hub Apprenticeship Program about how Discover has helped them create a path to exciting careers.

Application Development

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Discover’s First Internally Built Professional Certification Strengthens Cybersecurity & Employee Development

Multiple Authors | July 31, 2024

Learn how Discover made the decision to create its own cybersecurity certification program.

Application Development

Discover VP Angel Diaz Recognized as an American Banker 2024 Innovator of the Year

By Discover Technology Staff | June 17, 2024

Hear from Angel Diaz as he accepts the award for the American Banker 2024 Innovator of the Year.

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Unlocking Potential: Upskilling and Continuous learning

Soumya Raju | June 03, 2024

This article discusses strategies that Discover Financial Services uses to empower individuals and teams within Discover to grow their skills and advance their careers.

Cloud

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Explain It Like I'm Kevin - UI vs UX

By Discover Technology Staff | May 02, 2024

Join Discover creative Kevin Rogers as he learns about UI and UX, what they mean, and the differences that make them unique but equally valuable. Kevin is joined by Jonathan Speir, Senior Principal Product Designer, who uses a popular condiment to dip into the details.

Application Development
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Empowering Lives through the Chatham Technology Hub

By Discover Technology Staff | March 20, 2024

The Discover Chatham Technology Hub is making a difference for our customers and also for the vibrant community on Chicago's South Side.

Application Development
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Navigating the Build, Buy, or Partner Dilemma in Fintech

Shourya Nath | March 07, 2024

This article covers considerations product owners at Discover weigh when making the decision to build, buy, or partner.

Application Development

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Generative AI: Balancing security with innovation

Shaun Khalfan | January 09, 2024

Learn how Discover is embracing GenerativeAI in a thoughtful, intentional, security-focused manner.

Open Source

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Scaling Security: How to Build Security into the Entire Development Pipeline

Emily Mitchell | December 11, 2023

Learn how Discover’s security team catches vulnerabilities before deployment.

Open Source

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How Using Data Effectively Drives Customer Delight

Mrinal Kanti | December 05, 2023

The digital analytics team at Discover® Financial Services used data and a test-and-learn framework to hone the marketing experience for customers. Learn how they quadrupled their run rate in four years.

Application Development
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Beyond DevSecOps: Why Fintech Companies Need to Consider DevSecRegOps

Ed Calusiniski | December 04, 2023

DevSecRegOps takes DevSecOps a step further by ensuring security and regulatory demands are the responsibility of every team at key development steps of the IT lifecycle.

Application Development

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How Prioritizing Training and Mentorship Retains Talent

Emily Mitchell | November 30, 2023

As companies compete over the best talent, how do you attract and retain top talent? One approach Discover takes is to attract great people and equip them with the skills to do the job.

Cloud

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Discover Taps Keith Nielsen as Its Next Distinguished Engineer

By Discover Technology Staff | November 13, 2023

Keith Nielsen was recently recognized as a Discover Distinguished Engineer. Hear how his storied career earned him this distinction.

Cloud

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7 Lessons for Developing a Customer Personalization Engine

Multiple Authors | November 10, 2023

“This blog post highlights 7 lessons our team learned as we developed and deployed a data-driven personalization engine.”

Application Development

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How to Make Your Developer Organization More Efficient

Emily Mitchell | November 09, 2023

Learn how developer-focused initiatives has helped Discover automate or eliminate more than 100,000 hours of developer toil.

Automation

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3 Keys to Enabling Open Source Innovation at Your Company

Multiple Authors | October 30, 2023

Explore 3 ways that Discover Financial Services embraces an open-first strategy—and hear how we used these to build our first open-source project.

Open Source

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7 Ways to Ensure the Success of Product-Centric Reliability

Ryan Kennedy | October 09, 2023

This blog post highlights 7 changes the Digital Payments team made to create a culture where product teams own the reliability of their offerings.

Cloud

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Recap: 3Q 2023 Automation Roundtable Conversation Hosted by Discover

David Lyons | October 09, 2023

In our most recent automation roundtable, people across industries came together to talk about recent automation headlines, AI at Discover, implementing large language models, analysis of alternatives, and more.

Automation

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How An Architecture-Led Transformation Puts the Customer First

Ed Calusiniski | September 30, 2023

3 key ways to ensure customers are at the center of an architectural transformation

Cloud

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Explain It like I’m Kevin: Open Source with Roland Krocin

By Discover Technology Staff | September 20, 2023

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.

Open Source
Video

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Using Generative AI to Improve Our Award-Winning Customer Experience

Jeff Stone | September 20, 2023

Learn how Discover is using generative AI to create a better customer experience by empowering our call center agents.

Open Source
Video

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A Case Study for Small-Batch Deployments

Spencer Desmond | September 20, 2023

Learn how an all-or-nothing approach to development is not the best plan and how our team now implements small-batch deployments.

Application Development

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Why Accessibility Matters and How You Can Help Create Accessible Applications

Multiple Authors | September 20, 2023

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.

Application Development

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3 Keys to Boosting Your Engineering Culture

Angel Diaz | September 10, 2023

To inspire your engineers to do their best work every day, you must offer a shared mission, build careers using a community-focused approach, and provide a clear growth path.

Application Development

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Fostering Innovation at Discover Financial Services

Emily Mitchell | September 07, 2023

Learn how Discover empowers engineers to continuously generate, test, and launch new ideas.

Open Source

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People, Processes, and Technology Shine Bright on the Road to Digital Transformation

Angel Diaz | September 07, 2023

How Discover has revolutionized its approach to product, platform, and customer delight.

Open Source

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Introducing the Accessibility Theme Builder: An Open Source Tool for Designers and Developers

Multiple Authors | August 29, 2023

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

Open Source

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Explain It like I’m Kevin: What Is an API and How Does an API Work?

By Discover Technology Staff | August 20, 2023

Join Discover creative Kevin Rogers as he finds out what an API is and how they work from George Mitry, leader of the Discover API Center for Enablement.

Application Development
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Angel Diaz Named to HITEC 100 List

By Discover Technology Staff | August 18, 2023

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

Cloud
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A Moment of Your Time: Estimating Effort is Quite the Effort

By Discover Technology Staff | August 10, 2023

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.

Application Development
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How Product-Centric Engineering Has Revolutionized Discover

Angel Diaz | August 10, 2023

Discover's approach to digital transformation starts with an emphasis on product-centricity and relies on empowering internal teams.

Application Development

Trident 2.0 Is Winning Awards and Making Waves

Multiple Authors | July 27, 2023

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

Cloud

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3 Reasons to Avoid Sprint Zero & How to Form Better Teams from the Start

Robert Clawson | July 27, 2023

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.

Agile

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Recap: Discovers 2Q 2023 Automation Round Table Conversation

Jessica Crecelius | July 27, 2023

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.

Automation

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Solid Software Architecture Principles: 5 Principles to Make Your Coding Better

By Discover Technology Staff | July 19, 2023

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

Application Development

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How Discover's Chatham Technology Hub Teams Are Driving Business Impact on the South Side of Chicago

Multiple Authors | July 10, 2023

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

Cloud

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How Discover Scales Automation Using a Hub-and-Spoke Model

David Lyons | July 07, 2023

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

Automation

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How Discover Uses Open Source Principles to Support Its People, Processes and Technology

By Discover Technology Staff | June 23, 2023

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.

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Embracing a Passion for Design Accessibility through Open Source

By Discover Technology Staff | June 23, 2023

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

Open Source
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Discover Recognized by FINOS with Spread the Word Award

By Discover Technology Staff | June 23, 2023

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.

Open Source

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Shift Left! Build It Right! Discover the Devex Journey | Platformcon 2023

By Discover Technology Staff | June 19, 2023

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.

Application Development
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Discover Recognized as BCS Platinum Partner

By Discover Technology Staff | June 19, 2023

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

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Our Path to Open Sourcing an Accessibility Project

Multiple Authors | June 08, 2023

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

Open Source

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Keynote: The Thirst for Open Source Will Never Be Quenched

By Discover Technology Staff | May 26, 2023

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.

Open Source
Video

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The Evolution of Open Source Through Design

By Discover Technology Staff | May 26, 2023

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

Open Source
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Accessible Design Takes Spotlight in GAAD Hackathon

Kevin Allen | May 24, 2023

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

Open Source
Video

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Roundtable Conversations Enable Companies to Share Automation Best Practices

Daniel Ireland | May 17, 2023

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

Automation

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SiliconANGLE theCUBE: Angel Diaz talks about open source, platform-centricity, and more

By Discover Technology Staff | May 12, 2023

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.

Open Source
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Bank Automation Summit Recap

By Discover Technology Staff | May 09, 2023

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

Automation

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A Moment of Your Time: How to Build Powerful and Consumable APIs

By Discover Technology Staff | May 03, 2023

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

Application Development
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Lise Noble on Accessible Design, Theme Builder, and the Power of Design Thinking

By Discover Technology Staff | April 26, 2023

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

Open Source

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Creating Capacity through Human-in-the-Loop Robotic Process Automation

Multiple Authors | April 12, 2023

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.

Application Development

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Discover Advances Design Accessibility in the Open

Kevin Allen | April 12, 2023

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

Open Source
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A Moment of Your Time: A Quick Guide to Amazing API Design

By Discover Technology Staff | April 06, 2023

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

Application Development
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Breaking Free from End-to-End Testing: Why Contract Testing Is the Key to Microservices Success

Praveen Erode Mohanasundaram | March 31, 2023

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

Application Development

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How Are You Building React Applications? It’s Time to Move on from Create React App

Mike Stelzer | March 29, 2023

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

Application Development

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A Moment of Your Time: A Business User's Guide to APIs

By Discover Technology Staff | March 23, 2023

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

Application Development
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Eight fallacies of API Governance

George Mitry | March 23, 2023

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

Cloud

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How to Excel in Technology in 2023

Ed Calusiniski | March 17, 2023

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.

Cloud

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A Moment of Your Time: The Relationship Between Tech Makers and Managers

By Discover Technology Staff | February 28, 2023

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

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Driving innovation in the open

Angel Diaz | February 22, 2023

Hear from Angel Diaz, VP Technology Capabilities & Innovation, about how Discover is embracing open source.

Open Source

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A Moment of Your Time: Tips for Building Code Despite Lingering Technical Debt

By Discover Technology Staff | February 22, 2023

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.

Application Development
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The Iceberg of an API Strategy

George Mitry | February 22, 2023

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

Cloud

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Load Testing with Gatling in a Continuous Delivery Pipeline

John Coyne | February 22, 2023

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.

Application Development

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Building Your Craft Is Key to Your Success

By Discover Technology Staff | February 22, 2023

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

Application Development
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APIs and Microservices: Different Concepts, Distinct Investment

George Mitry | February 22, 2023

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

Cloud

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Seven Steps to Make Your Code Reusable

Anthony Cox | February 22, 2023

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

Open Source

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Discover Joins the Linux Foundation and FINOS

By Discover Technology Staff | February 22, 2023

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

Open Source
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Securing Kubernetes On the Cloud

Keith Nielsen | February 22, 2023

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

Cloud

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Four Tips for Creating and Implementing a Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Keith Nielsen | February 22, 2023

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

Cloud

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A Moment of Your Time: How to Improve Your Code to Avoid Technical Debt

By Discover Technology Staff | February 15, 2023

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.

Application Development
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Intro to Reactive HTTP

Maanasa Madiraju | February 14, 2023

The why, what, and how of reactive programming.

Application Development

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Resolve Database Discrepancies with Modern Tooling

Adam Crombleholme | February 14, 2023

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

Application Development

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How Mutation Testing Can Improve Your Java Applications

John Coyne | February 14, 2023

Learn how to set up mutation testing for your Java applications

Application Development

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How Business, Build and Infrastructure Teams Can Work Together to Reduce Costs

Geoff Godwin | February 14, 2023

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.

Application Development

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Driving Clean Delivery: Reducing Technical Debt for a Smooth Ride

Wesley Ramirez | February 14, 2023

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.

Application Development

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Creating a Better Developer Experience at Discover through Golden Paths

Andrew Duckett | February 10, 2023

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

Open Source

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Why Static Testing Matters

Praveen Erode Mohanasundaram | February 09, 2023

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

Application Development

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Retry Configuration and Gotchas

Nagesh Basana | February 09, 2023

Learn about this workaround for retry configurations in Spring applications.

Application Development

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Introduction to Contract Testing

Praveen Erode Mohanasundaram | February 09, 2023

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.

Application Development

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A Moment of Your Time: An Introduction to Technical Debt

By Discover Technology Staff | February 01, 2023

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.

Application Development
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Make Engineers’ Lives Easier through Reuse

Anthony Cox | January 26, 2023

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

Open Source

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What Is Tech Debt and How Can You Address It?

Bradley Pritikin | January 24, 2023

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

Application Development

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What Is Software Reuse?

Multiple Authors | January 24, 2023

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.

Open Source

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The Monorepo Pattern

Jared Suttles | January 24, 2023

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

Application Development

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Use Module Federation to Share Code in a Distributed System

Mike Stelzer | January 09, 2023

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.

Application Development

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Recap: 4Q 2023 Automation Roundtable Conversation Hosted by Discover

David Lyons | January 09, 2023

In our most recent automation roundtable, people across industries came together to talk about recent automation headlines, AI at Discover, implementing large language models, analysis of alternatives, and more.

Automation

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The Impact of Automating Nearly 300 Processes in Financial Services

Multiple Authors | November 29, 2022

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.

Automation

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What Is Feature Engineering and Can It Be Automated?

Supraja Rapuru | February 14, 2022

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.

Application Development