Form3 runs UK bank payments across three clouds simultaneously.
At QCon London, their engineers explained how they built their custom Kubernetes operators, cross-cloud DNS tricks, and distributed databases, and what happened when they tried to sell them in America.
Spoiler: US customers wanted East/West failover, not triple-active multi-cloud.
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Ludi Akue discusses how the tech sector’s rising emissions impact our global climate goals.
Drawing from her experience as a CTO, she explains seven key lessons for implementing Green IT.
She shares insights on LCA assessments, the paradox of microservices, and why FinOps doesn’t always equal green.
Andres Almiray, a serial open-source contributor and the creator of JReleaser, discusses the project's state, noting that the tool is usable across any ecosystem, not just Java.