Oh my God, I’ve been running strides all wrong! Yes I am a runner, whatever that means. To me it means I ran in high school and I should know these things. I read Daniels’ book and it didn’t pop…
Quality Workout
Week two of my Phase 2 program under the Daniels’s running formula. Today’s run was a quality work out meaning it included a focus on building strength and speed as well as ongoing endurance. I’m so lucky to have the…
Austin TX
Here is a dump of notes on Austin. From a friend who is there, an Uber driver and our experience there. We had a great weekend – hit at least three microbreweries, restaurants, a blues/country band and lots of walking.…
Is it time for ISO 20022 ATM Driving? Is it time to abandon ATM Driving all together?
Could an ISO 20022 web-services based ATM Terminal Handler/Driver reduce costs and accelerate innovation by consolidating applications, connections and platforms. Would bankers, ATM vendors and bank application providers get on board with such a strategy? Do we still need ATM drivers in an IOT world? One idea to help banks remain PCI compliant, maintain legacy connections but become more innovative and extensible with their ATM strategy in an open banking world.
Why and How we went from SaaS to Cloud, Services to APIs – It’s just Business!
Just how does Amazon or Google scale to such a huge number of transactions or inquiries? How are these companies able to afford to serve so many customers every day, with new services, nonstop again and again? The economics behind…
ESB: Enterprise Service Bus or Evolving Services Buzzwords
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about microservices and ESBs (the Enterprise Services Bus) and what it means for my banking friends and customers. There is a lot of confusion out there – what is an ESB and who is using them in banking… here are some thoughts on the matter in a playful comparison to the Red Devil busses in Panama to a discussion on banking specific solutions vs an all purpose integration platform.
#middleware #microservices #ESB #enterpriseservciesbus #mulesoft #tibco #PaaS
Software 30 years $1 Trillion
Reflecting on the recent FIS and Fiserv acquisitions and the enormity of these companies now! Then I reflected on Microsoft and the fact that both will still have less than 10% of its market cap after the acquisitions. 30 years…
Microservices and other shifts in techspeak
Over the past 30 years selling technology solutions, the raw materials of the products I sell have changed many times. Shifts from centralized to decentralized processing and data models, optimization for the hardware we were operating on, business trends swinging…
IOT, Mobile Create Cyborgs of Traditional Bank Branch & ATM Self-Service Beasts
I know, I just mixed a metaphor – and I used a simile for a branch acting like a person. Grammar be damned – the things bankers are doing these days with mobile in the branch just make me think…
Walls and other distractions
A news article popped up in my feed today about the recent theory as to why the famous huge statues on Easter Island were placed where they are. According to a recent study, the theory goes that the people of Rapa…