Global Kinetic went for autonomous delivery teams knowing that some companies have struggled to scale their use. Lorén Rose explains how they make it work.
Effective autonomous teams all share these five things
Solving the software integration challenge, FinTech’s last mile
Co-founder and CIO of enterprise software development house, Global Kinetic, Sergio directly heads its open banking platform, FutureBank. A skilled software engineer, innovative product developer, and keen business strategist, he has participated in several notable fintech milestones, including building the southern hemisphere’s first digital-only bank all the way back in 2002.]
Three keys to digital innovation at scale
Three keys to digital innovation at scale By Sergio Barbosa, CIO, Global Kinetic Rapidly changing consumer needs, especially in the wake of Covid-19, are driving a very real need for digitization at scale in sectors as diverse as banking, education, gaming and healthcare. Gartner Inc. predicts that worldwide spend on…
The 5 Pillars of Good Solution Architecture: Availability and Recoverability
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…
The 5 Pillars of Good Solution Architecture: Performance and Scalability
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
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…
Her Story: Lorén Rose, Global Kinetic COO
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
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…
[VIDEO] Global Kinetic: Where the magic happens
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…
5 Reasons Why You Should Invest in DevOps
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…