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I tried Monzo and they're awesome, but ended up ultimately moving to Starling. Reason being they have a full FSCS license, so your balance is guaranteed by the

I tried Monzo and they're awesome, but ended up ultimately moving to Starling. Reason being they have a full FSCS license, so your balance is guaranteed by the government up to around £85k. Apart from that they're both much the same, and both leagues better than a normal bank. It's amazing buying stuff or getting cash out and the notification comes through on the phone before the ATM tells you the cash is coming! Another good thing both have - you can switch off cards instantly. I thought i'd lost my Starling card when out last week, instead of cancelling it I just temporarily halted it until it was found.

maxehmookau 8y ago
Monzo now has a full FSCS licence.
- sofaofthedamned 8y ago
  Good to know, thank you. What I do love about Monzo is their approach to development - they blog everything, even the outages. Good to see the process involved in making a new bank from scratch. I'm keeping the account as a scratch account but have already moved the direct debits from my old Halifax account to Starling.
  - maxehmookau 8y ago
    Agreed. Watching them discuss in detail in their blog about how they use Kubernetes has been really interesting.
    - sofaofthedamned 8y ago
      Yeah. As somebody who was learning Kubernetes whilst using it to deploy a data science platform it was very useful to see the failure cases :D
  - dankohn1 8y ago
    Monzo's head of engineering will be keynoting at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen next week, and talking about past outages: https://kccnceu18.sched.com/event/Dsan/keynote-anatomy-of-a-production-kubernetes-outage-oliver-beattie-head-of-engineering-monzo-bank https://kccnceu18.sched.com/event/Dsan/keynote-anatomy-of-a-...
    - maxehmookau 8y ago
      That sounds great. Gutted I won't be there, hope it's recorded!
      - dankohn1 8y ago
        Yes, we'll have it on the CNCF YouTube channel a few days later. https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudnativefdn https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudnativefdn
        maxehmookau 8y ago
        Amazing, thanks!

maxehmookau 8y ago

Monzo now has a full FSCS licence.

sofaofthedamned 8y ago
Good to know, thank you. What I do love about Monzo is their approach to development - they blog everything, even the outages. Good to see the process involved in making a new bank from scratch. I'm keeping the account as a scratch account but have already moved the direct debits from my old Halifax account to Starling.
- maxehmookau 8y ago
  Agreed. Watching them discuss in detail in their blog about how they use Kubernetes has been really interesting.
  - sofaofthedamned 8y ago
    Yeah. As somebody who was learning Kubernetes whilst using it to deploy a data science platform it was very useful to see the failure cases :D
- dankohn1 8y ago
  Monzo's head of engineering will be keynoting at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen next week, and talking about past outages: https://kccnceu18.sched.com/event/Dsan/keynote-anatomy-of-a-production-kubernetes-outage-oliver-beattie-head-of-engineering-monzo-bank https://kccnceu18.sched.com/event/Dsan/keynote-anatomy-of-a-...
  - maxehmookau 8y ago
    That sounds great. Gutted I won't be there, hope it's recorded!
    - dankohn1 8y ago
      Yes, we'll have it on the CNCF YouTube channel a few days later. https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudnativefdn https://www.youtube.com/c/cloudnativefdn
      - maxehmookau 8y ago
        Amazing, thanks!