The 5 Pillars of Good Solution Architecture: Availability and Recoverability By Sergio Barbosa (CIO – Global Kinetic) To date, we have looked at the security and the performance and scalability aspects of good solution architecture. If you did not catch those two posts, be sure to read up on them before…
Performance and Scalability. Designing for scale and performance requires a clear plan of when to scale up and when to scale out. This plan needs to be accompanied by a process for optimizing network and storage performance and identifying bottlenecks.
The 5 Pillars of Good Solution Architecture: Security By Sergio Barbosa (CIO – Global Kinetic) A lot of fanfare has been made about the Twelve-Factor App methodology and how it is becoming the best way to approach building a SaaS based application that makes use of microservices. I am one…
by Lorén Rose
In honour of women’s month and in celebration of the strength demonstrated by the women of South Africa in 1956, we decided to put the spotlight on some of the women of Global Kinetic and asked them to share their stories and their advice to other women wanting to enter the tech industry.
How Modernism inspired Global Kinetic’s Core Values By Martin Dippenaar (CEO) My favourite period of Architecture is the Modern movement spanning 1920 to the 1960s. The fathers of the Modern movement; Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson with buildings like Falling Water, The Barcelona…
We love new technology, innovation and change. One of the (maybe not so) new technologies that we have been using on a few of our projects, is Unity. A new trend though is to make Unity movies, and Victor Geere in our engineering team took it upon himself to create…
The primary purpose of implementing a DevOps strategy for any software delivery team is to improve both velocity and quality. Improvements in quality and velocity directly translate into the following benefits for you the business: Speed of delivery Teams with continuous delivery pipelines can release to production more reliably and…
Throughout next year, Global Kinetic will be hosting quarterly tech meetups. To launch our new initiative, we have invited Steve Barnett to host a workshop at the Global Kinetic offices to discuss Accessibility and Inclusive Design. Through this event, he will help people develop a more inclusive design mindset (noting…
Oradian and Instafin Partnership with FutureBank Platform Oradian and Global Kinetic integrate their Instafin and FutureBank Platform products into a seamless banking experience aimed at the unbanked in Nigeria, Ghana, the Philippines and more. In total; 2.5 billion of the world’s adults don’t use formal banks or semi formal micro-finance…
FUTUREBANK DIGITAL AND API BANKING PLATFORM INTEGRATES ENTERSEKT’S SECURE CONNEKT PAYMENT FUNCTIONALITY AT LENDIT FINTECH USA 2018 Global Kinetic team up again with their security partners and industry leaders Entersekt to make FutureBank a leading digital banking platform with additional payment features PALO ALTO – April 9 – Global Kinetic…
