Monzo Stability

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They’ve been almost bracingly honest when things have gone very wrong before e.g.

RESOLVED: Current account payments may fail - Major Outage (27/10/2017)

Hi everyone I’m Monzo’s Head of Engineering, and as I promised on Friday I’d like to share some more information about what happened during this outage. Because the nature of the issue was technical, this post is also quite technical. It’s important to note that we had two major incidents last week that many of you will have experienced (sorry again.) The first incident lasted most of the week and affected only our prepaid product – ie. Monzo Alpha and Beta cards. The second …

Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Outage - presentation

@oliver gave the keynote talk at KubeCon this year & here it is This talk will dive into a production Kubernetes outage that Monzo experienced a few months ago, its causes and effects, and the architectural and operational lessons learned. [Keynote: Anatomy of a Production Kubernetes Outage - Oliver Beattie, Head of Engineering, Monzo Bank] The slides from the talk are here - & the post mortem that he mentioned in the talk is here -