How Fintechs Can Build Trust Into the Cloud
In fintech, compliance without compromise is the foundation of trust. Customers, investors, and regulators all want the same thing: proof that your systems and data are secure and protected, and that your operations are accountable. For a fintech, credibility is currency. Yet too often, compliance…
Cloud Is Not a Place… It Is a Strategy
Spoiler alert: you’re “on AWS” but you’re actually there to scale, stay safe, and stay sane. How? Through AWS Cloud Cost Strategy and AWS Cloud Cost Optimisation. At some point, almost every fintech founder or CTO tells us: “We’re moving to the cloud.” Awesome. But here’s the thing: just moving…
Five Cloud Mistakes Holding Your Fintech Back
From runaway bills to outdated tech stacks, here are the most common traps we see here at Kinetic Skunk. Read on to see how the smartest fintechs are flipping the script on the 5 Cloud Mistakes Holding Fintechs Back. At Kinetic Skunk, we spend a lot of time inside the cloud stacks of South Africa’s…
Turning Migration Into a Strategic Advantage
For financial technology companies, trust is everything. Reputation is protected by ‘Trust Without Downtime’. Customers expect every tap, transfer, top-up, trade, and transaction to work instantly. That’s why downtime during migration is risky for any fintech. It can lead to serious trust issues….
Implementing a Microservices Approach to Software Testing using Gitlab and Kubernetes
Software development is increasingly moving away from legacy “monolith” application architecture and embracing microservices as the way forward. Instead of developing, deploying and scaling entire solutions, microservices enable you to deploy individual components as services that work together to…
