Kalyan Gottipati is VP, Principal Solutions Architect at Citizens Financial Group. Cloud-native banking is about financial institutions adopting cloud-native technologies and architectures due to their ability to deliver a highly scalable and resilient environment. In the fast-moving world of the financial services industry, a cloud-native setup has become critical in modern banking systems. A 2021 survey revealed that 91% of banks planned to increase their cloud usage, with 43% already utilizing platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and 29% using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). In this article, we will explore the advantages of banks going cloud-native. We will also look at important enablers like microservices and…

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It’s not long since Apple released the latest iPhone update, iOS 18.3—with a special extra version following a week later, and it looks like there’s an unanticipated smaller update, iOS 18.3.1 coming soon—but it’s iOS 18.4 that people are really waiting for. It looks like the first developer beta could…

The fighters have weighed in for UFC 312 ahead of the PPV set for Saturday, February 8 at the Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney, Australia. We lost one fight off the card, but thankfully, it wasn’t the main or co-main event. Dricus Du Plessis and Sean Strickland were on championship…

Injuries continue to wreak havoc in the career of two-time UFC champion Dominick Cruz. The latest may send UFC President and his team scrambling to find a replacement for UFC Seattle. On Wednesday, Cageside Press reported that Cruz suffered an injury during training that will force him out of what…

Thousands of consumers impacted by Bassett Furniture’s July 2021 to April 2023 data breach have until Feb. 28 to file claims for compensation under a class action settlement. The breach potentially exposed sensitive customer information, including names, addresses and financial account details through vulnerabilities in Bassett’s third-party e-commerce platform. Key…

Looking for Saturday’s Strands hints, spangram and answers? You can find them here: Another day, another Strands puzzle to solve. The year is already zipping by, it seems, as February kicks off with not a hint of snow. Yesterday I went hiking and found myself altogether too warm in a…

As the winter break fades into the past, the question on every traveler’s mind is: “Where to next?” While familiar platforms like Booking.com, Airbnb, TripAdvisor, and Expedia dominate the space, a fresh wave of travel tech startups is shaking up the industry. These emerging players are setting trends that will…

A new report from Common Sense Media reveals that trust in big tech among American teenagers is steadily eroding. While teens remain heavy users of platforms like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, their confidence in the companies behind these technologies has plummeted. According to the report fewer than one in ten…

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We have all heard about autonomous vehicles, especially self-driving cars. But did you know that many of the same principles apply to self-driving airplanes? As the era of autonomous transportation becomes a reality, critical questions about safety and decision-making arise: How do algorithms account for randomness in autonomous systems like…

Amid a free-ranging route of U.S. tech stocks, investors are wondering how the new announcement from Chinese firm DeepSeek, of a new efficient reasoning model to be reckoned with, is going to affect the industry long-term. It’s not just investors, either – the big question for many people looking at…

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