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No cloud to lean on: building a reliable data platform on a bank's own servers

Replication, failover, graceful shutdown, autoscaling and alerting usually arrive as managed services. Inside a bank, you build them from Kubernetes, an operator or two and a lot of small decisions.

  • Bank builds reliable data platform on its own servers using Kubernetes.
  • System processes file uploads, cleans files, loads into Iceberg data lake.
  • Measures reliability, fault tolerance, high availability, scalability, and observability.

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