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No discussion related to internet banking is complete without someone mentioning Commonwealth Bank here in Australia. Commonwealth Bank CIO says any code older
by TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
No discussion related to internet banking is complete without someone mentioning Commonwealth Bank here in Australia.
Commonwealth Bank CIO says any code older than three months is like “food in the fridge”, past its ‘best before’ date.
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cba-to-treat-its-software-like-food-in-the-fridge-570930 https://www.itnews.com.au/news/cba-to-treat-its-software-lik...
Which explains why their online banking services have become very brittle the past couple years.
- asah 5y agoThree months?! I'm guessing he's never written any.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoI’d hazard a guess you’re probably right. Still worrying that someone who’s prepared to spout that opinion made it that far up the organisation.
- ValentineC 5y agoI don't know. As a Singapore resident with way too many bank accounts, it seems like the most unstable experiences for me tend to be the banks that try to reinvent features, like the aforementioned DBS. I'd speculate that shipping new features, not stability, is somewhat linked to career progression. It could also be because most Singapore banking apps end up using the same mobile security framework to pass their audits [1] — except that same security framework prefers security over user experience. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Key https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-Key
- dustintrex 5y agoThe interview is a bit ambiguous, but to me it looks like he's referring to prod binaries over 3 months old being stale, which is considerably more reasonable.
- cgio 5y agoAt a high level, CBA’s technology strategy is “quite simple to think about but quite difficult to execute” That’s the problem right there, it sounds like it is too simplistic to support execution.