By Usha Jagannathan — Principal Engineer, McKinsey & Company Today’s AI tools can produce highly accurate results but can be difficult to understand — even for experts. Explainable AI (XAI), in which “black box” machine learning (ML) models that make predictions are investigated to see how they reach these predictions…

by Rushika Kumar — Expert, Rajan Julka — Specialist, McKinsey & Company A shift in mindset is underway across digital teams responsible for delivering products and services. Continually evolving consumer behavior and consistent technology and market disruption has seen a switch in focus from delivery-based planning to value and impact…

Security and monitoring — by Slavo Vojacek In Part 2, we built and deployed the building blocks of our application. Now it’s time to add a layer of security and look at what it means to run serverless workloads in Production. Securing endpoints with API Keys Before we dive in, kindly note that for demonstration purposes, I’ve chosen to…

Handling business logic with Lambda — by Slavo Vojacek In Part 1, we managed to deploy a DynamoDB Table and a REST API to an AWS region of choice. The next step is to add logic that will connect these resources and start delivering business value. Prerequisite updates To make my life easier, the first thing I’ll do…

Solution overview and project setup — by Slavo Vojacek In this three-part series, I want to show you one way to build and deploy a simple financial application that would allow authenticated clients to create accounts, and to transfer funds between accounts. Below is an overview of what I’ll cover throughout the series: Solution overview and…

by Roman Galeev In this article, I’m going to demonstrate the benefits of using Terraform CDK to manage Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure. Cloud Development Kit (CDK) The core idea is around how to use generic programming languages to define infrastructure constructs that then are translated to low-level cloud management primitives (CloudFormation, Terraform JSON). …

by Jodan Cook and Sean Heydenrych Let’s set the scene: most companies believe their prior business models will soon be obsolete. The consensus from the 1,100+ global executives we surveyed believe that by 2026, half of their company’s revenues will come from products, services, or businesses that don’t exist today. …

by Melchor Tatlonghari — Specialist, McKinsey & Company Trying to learn about Software Engineering can sometimes feel like attempting to dig a bottomless pit; there are never ending facets to delve into and whenever you believe you’re close to mastering one area, the landscape shifts and suddenly there is yet…

by Deepak Joshi, Divya Ganesh, Tependra Lohumi In its simplest form, a digital hub is a group of cross-functional digital experts who solve complex and challenging business problems through technology and further the digital agenda of the organization. An effective, well-organized digital hub offers a variety of advantages. It can…