Machine learning — It’s the buzz word of the decade. In early April through a combined effort between the NAB Cloud Guild and Amazon Web Services (AWS) we collectively hosted NAB’s very own AWS DeepRacer competition internally to great success. AWS DeepRacer is a fully autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by reinforcement…

This blog focuses on NAB’s dev ops and is written by Senior Manager, Distinguish Engineer, Bharath Raj, a self-confessed ‘devopaholic’. What is a ‘devopaholic’? A ‘devopaholic’ is someone who is obsessed with automation, security, reliability and building quality services for our customers. This sets a high standard of operational maturity. With this mindset is…

How do you prove who you are on the internet? And how can you trust the person or entity on the other end? These are the great challenges of modern digitalised society, with implications for privacy and the security of our data and finances. These arise in everyday scenarios: • Peer-to-peer…

At NAB we’ve been leading the way in Australia when it comes to both creating and migrating our applications to a world-class, multi-cloud environment. At time of writing we have re-platformed 60% of our applications to cloud since 2018 and we’ve got plenty more to come. But what happens when…

In this article, we look at some of the benefits and challenges we have experienced during the use of GraphQL over the last few years at NAB. GraphQL was adopted as part of the NAB-X platform we use to deliver customer and colleague user interfaces on web and mobile. It…

Managing an efficient backlog and allowing engineers to focus is the most critical part of modern agile delivery. To support these outcomes NAB has shifted development to a standard way of working called Progressive Elaboration with Rolling Wave. What does this mean? In short, we’ve streamlined and made all aspects…

At the National Australia Bank (or as we’re known locally — ‘NAB’) we’re a company that understands the importance of engineers to our future. We’re an Australian bank that services over 9 million customers with a simple strategic ambition to serve customers well and help our communities prosper. We’ve been…

At NAB, GitHub Enterprise is utilised as our primary source code version control system. Prior to the following initiative, GitHub was running in private mode requiring every user to have a GitHub account and login for any type of activity. …

When making decisions that affect our customers and communities, we must hold that decision making, whether human or machine made, to the highest level of transparency and accountability. The information upon which decisions are made needs to be sound and fair. We need to understand how decisions are made and…