As one of the biggest banks in China, China Merchants Bank has been a contributor and pioneer in cloud-native financial production practices for its rapid digital transformation. But we face challenges in balancing cloud-native application adoption with banking's higher demand for security compliance, transaction consistency, and full-chain business risk management. Meanwhile, we need to face the cloud-native evolution issue caused by the banking IT org structure.
Platform engineering, leveraging CNCF projects such as KubeVela, OpenFeature, Envoy, Opentelemetry, OPA, and Team Topologies patterns, is a pragmatic solution to address these challenges related to technology and org structure.
In this talk, we'll share our financial-grade platform engineering practices to provide a consistent developer experience, streamline the DevOps process, improve efficiency and reduce errors with end-to-end observability, and implement security risk policies to ensure compliance and risk control.