Context: Why Rules Engine? Decision-making has always been at the heart of any business. In specific industries (such as Lending), some of the decisions made are so dynamic & in flux that programming these decisions by hand is counter-productive. Take the example of the decision of giving someone a loan. When you start assessing…

A summary of our experiences building Cloud Native applications across 18 months — At FundsCorner, we embraced Cloud Native from day one to conceive, architect and deliver an end to end digital supply chain lending platform in record time. Cloud Native is the answer to the software industry’s relentless search in the current decade for a set of tools and practices that makes…

A framework for capacity estimation and auto-scaling Capacity estimation or back-of-the-envelope calculations is often asked during systems design interviews. In this article, I propose a methodical way of breaking down such questions. At the end of the article, you will not only gain an understanding of approaching such questions, but…

A developer toolkit that reduces time to build Data APIs by 75% through rapid API generation (REST & GraphQL), using Java compile-time annotations. What problem does this product solve? With the advent of microservices, the overall scope of a system is increasingly being segregated into multiple services. Consider a big enterprise that has several systems, each…

A small story on (self) love — Sajani was looking at herself intently in the mirror, worried about her date next week. The irony was inescapable. Despite her orthodox Indian upbringing, Sajani had yearned for her freedom to choose someone freely — and partially succeeded too; She had met Arun a week back and felt he was…