How Norway’s Banking Engineers Deliver 35M Requests a Day with Confidence | The Engineering Room Ep. 38

About this episode

Dave Farley discusses SpareBank One's transformation in software development with Ola Hast and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom, focusing on the importance of pair programming for continuous delivery.

In this episode, Dave Farley explores how SpareBank One transformed their software development approach with Ola Hast (Developer) and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom (Senior Developer). Working at Norway's second-largest banking alliance serving 1.2 million users, they reveal how pair programming became absolutely essential to achieving true continuous delivery. ------------------------ The Engineering Room is sponsored by Equal Experts. Equal Experts is a product software development consultancy with a network of over 1,000 experienced technology consultants globally. They increase the pace of innovation by using modern software engineering practices that embrace Continuous Delivery, Security, and Operability from the outset ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ASy8n0 Only Patreon Supporters get to see the FULL VIDEO Episodes of The Engineering Room, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/c/continuousdelivery Dave's NEW BOOK is OUT NOW: https://leanpub.com/softwaredevelopersguidebook Supporting Links: Ola & Asgaut's QCon talk "Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible without Pair Programming": https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cd-pair-programming/ SINTEF Research into Pair Programming in the Bank…

People in this episode

Host: Dave Farley

Guests: Ola Hast, Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom

Topics covered

• software development
• pair programming
• continuous delivery
• banking technology
• innovation

Keywords

• continuous delivery
• pair programming
• software engineering
• banking
• innovation

Sponsors

Equal Experts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SpareBank One

Places: Norway, Norway's second-largest banking alliance

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