What are we working on? The Monzo Weekly Diary

Ooh, my turn again? Yay! :relaxed:

Recently, I’ve been working with @simon and @matt on the internals of our microservices platform. When we started building Mondo over a year ago, we decided that we would make a big investment in our backend platform. A solid foundation is really important because we want to build a reliable, secure, awesome product, and we want to do it fast. :rocket:

For those that are more technically inclined, here are a few specific things we’ve been up to:

  1. Running all our services in Kubernetes :whale:
  2. Changing the way our services talk to one another (we were using RabbitMQ, now we’re using HTTP and linkerd :zap:)
  3. Automating management of our infrastructure with Terraform :muscle:
  4. Using Kafka as our asynchronous queue :robot:

I’d love to write a blog post in the next month or so, going into depth about some of the things we’ve built and why we’ve done things the way we have, if that would be interesting to folks. :nerd:

You’re up tomorrow, @thomasageorge

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