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How online retailers can harness live shopping on social media with modern commerce — and boost massive growth

CIO

Live shopping is one of the most exciting retail experiences in a long time. As shoppers become increasingly eager to buy via live shopping on social platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, retailers face new challenges: How to capture the shoppers’ attention on social media when the urge to buy hits?

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Numeral wants to turn bank accounts into microservices

TechCrunch

By abstracting that layer of complexity, you can treat your bank accounts like another microservice in your architecture. While retail banks are just starting to offer APIs, corporate banks opened their banking platform many years ago. Last month, Numeral announced that it raised a $14.8

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

This approach goes a long way toward explaining how Amazon was able to externalize its computing infrastructure — first to Merchant.com, the company’s ecommerce-as-a-service platform for retailers to build their own online stores, and then to Amazon Web Services, a broader offering that has since taken a life of its own.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

A modern bank must have an agile, open, and intelligent systems architecture to deliver the digital services today’s consumers want. These organizations have two choices: They can modernize their architecture and develop the technology they need in-house or collaborate with fintechs to do it for them.

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Huawei unveils four strategic directions for the future of finance

CIO

The model ensures user experience, service resilience, and service security, helping institutions move from host architecture to containerised applications and eventually, to hybrid multi-cloud. The distributed architecture now outperforms the original core host platform, notably with lower latency.

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Building resilient infrastructure: the key to cloud-native, real-time decision-making

CIO

The model ensures user experience, service resilience, and service security, helping institutions move from host architecture to containerised applications and eventually, to hybrid multi-cloud. The distributed architecture now outperforms the original core host platform, notably with lower latency.

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Gaining visibility into processes spanning multiple microservices

Bernd Rucker

How to understand your choreography using process events monitoring Enterprises that use event-driven microservices often suffer from a lack of visibility into processes that cross the boundary of one individual microservice. Before I can do that, I will briefly explain a typical event-driven architecture and the resulting challenges.