Production Practice for Large-Scale Financial Application Platform in China Merchants Bank

Explore a conference talk detailing China Merchants Bank's journey in adopting cloud native technology for its large-scale financial application platform. Discover how the bank tackles unique challenges in the banking industry, including higher stability and security requirements, and complex historical architecture. Learn about their strategies for migrating diverse workloads from bare metal to serverless, implementing progressive rollout with traffic management, and leveraging observability to meet business SLOs. Gain insights into the bank's modern cloud native platform, which utilizes CNCF projects such as KubeVela, KubeVirt, Envoy, and OpenTelemetry to serve diverse workloads and overcome industry-specific challenges. Understand how these practices contribute to resource cost reduction and improved utilization in a banking environment.