Application Development

In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, join us at the A11Y Theme Builder Collaboration Summit to focus on education and collaboration around the A11Y Theme Builder project.

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

Join us for inspirational panel discussion amongst female leaders in technology at Discover's 606 office.

Join us for the longest-running and largest Java Ecosystem Conference in the World..

Join us for a great Java community meet-up to talk about contract testing for microservices success and the JDK security enhancements in Java 17 to 21.

Join us for an exciting meetup focused on Kubernetes and containers as we supercharge your Kubernetes deployments! This insightful evening features four lightning talks, each designed to enlighten and enhance your Kubernetes journey. We will also have Chicago style pizza, drinks, networking and awesome swag.

Join us for South Side Innovates, where we celebrate Black technologists, entrepreneurs, and visionaries in the dynamic landscape of Chicago's tech ecosystem.

In an ever-changing cybersecurity world, innovation and creativity are key. Join RSAC 2024 and discover The Art of Possible as we collectively create works that will change our perspective on what we can accomplish.

Three days of innovation and connection, endless possibilities for your business. That’s TRANSACT.

Join us for this unique event where you can spend time with hundreds of inspiring women in tech. Women who are breaking barriers, innovating, and flourishing.

Join us to get must-have insights, strategies and frameworks for chief data analytics officers (CDAOs) and D&A leaders to think big and drive real impact within their organizations.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Red Hat and Discover invite anyone eager to join us for an inspiring and thought-provoking panel discussion with a group of executive women who have thrived in the technology industry.

Join Discover and industry partners Red Hat, Pluralsight, Avanade, and 1871 for an intimate engagement with the diverse Chicago tech community.

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.

Learn how Jason Burke went from intern to VP with the support of Discover.

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

Join us for a deep dive into different facets of AI/ML and data science in financial services.

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.

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.

In Chi Tech Collective's Takeoff series, we spotlight Fintech's support for small businesses. Through enjoyable interactions, Takeoff: Build in Fintech fosters diverse community-building

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

“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.

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.

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

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.

Meet Natasha Perez, passionate product leader and customer advocate.

Meet Joe Mills, a people leader and director of Transformation Strategy and Automation.

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.

Join us for a cloud developer meetup where you'll learn and share about Kubernetes platforms and portals with fellow cloud practitioners.

Could your future career be in Cybersecurity? Join this event to find out if it’s right for you!

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.

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.

Meet Priya Krishnamoorthy, an engineering manager at Discover with a passion for singing.

Meet Megan Wrest, a 90's kid who loves technology and solving problems.

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.

Get to know Stephanie Kurensky, a product owner who helps her team manage the end-to-end experiences for the gift card and charity redemption options at Discover.

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.

Get to know Kate Lorenzen, video game enthusiast who does what she loves in her own unique way.

“Get to know Stephanie Kurensky, a product owner who helps her team manage the end-to-end experiences for the gift card and charity redemption options at Discover.”

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

Discover is sponsoring the Atomic Accessibility Design Challenge as part of the FINOS Global Accessibility Awareness Day Hackathon. Registration deadline is April 21, 2023.

Meet Glenn Turner Jr., a product owner with a passion for martial arts.

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

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

Get to know John Coyne, an experienced engineer who is passionate about bettering our customer's lives and sharing his knowledge with our engineering community.

Meet George Mitry, the man leading our API Center for Enablement.

Join us in Orlando, Florida for the world's largest gathering of female technologists.

Join us in Salt Lake City in November, 2023.

Get to know Nagesh Basana, one of the engineers responsible for protecting your oline privacy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Join us in Los Angeles for the Society of Women Engineers National Conference.

Join us in Los Angeles for the Society of Women Engineers National Conference.

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

Meet Geoff Godwin, creator and host of the 'A Moment of Your Time' Youtube series.

Meet Caleb Sorenson--foodie, jam session enthusiast, and product owner.

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

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.

The why, what, and how of reactive programming.

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

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.

Join us in Santa Clara March 21-23 for SRECon.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.