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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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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. Choreography and event-driven microservices Microservices can use events to communicate among each other.

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MoneyGram profits from mainframe move to multicloud

CIO

The Dallas-based money transfer service provider continues to derive roughly half its annual revenue from traditional sources: international money transfers at retail storefronts and customers paying down payments for cars and rent by purchasing money orders. For example, in Mexico, the company’s market remains 95% cash pickup.

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Huawei unveils four strategic directions for the future of finance

CIO

Institutions need to modernize their applications, a process Huawei accelerates through a “platform + service” model which places many microservices onto a stable, high-performance infrastructure.

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Accelerating innovation with cloud-native apps on Microsoft Cloud

CIO

Like the retail and media companies that adopted cloud-native services before them, financial institutions are learning that the more agile their technology is, the more customers they will attract. A cloud-native approach drives innovation in several ways.