The Journey of Next-Gen FinTech IDP at China Merchants Bank

Explore the transformative journey of China Merchants Bank (CMB), one of China's largest retail banks, through cloud migration, cloud-native transformation, and platform engineering over the past three years in this 36-minute conference talk. Discover how CMB overcame challenges such as increased complexity in cloud technology and management, and potential risks to developer productivity and continuous assurance of financial services. Learn about their successful implementation of KubeVela, OpenFeature, Envoy, Clilum, and OpenTelemetry to build the Next-Gen FinTech IDP, resulting in the management of 70% of applications within a year and improved developer experience for thousands of R&D engineers. Gain insights into strategic thinking, 'Golden Path' implementation, struggles, trade-offs, and key success metrics with the platform engineering maturity model. Obtain a valuable blueprint and reference architecture for financial organizations undergoing similar transformations in both English and Chinese.