Read later Summary: Developing front-end, user-facing applications is one thing; making sure the resilience of the established back office services keeps up is another matter. (Pixabay) Nedbank in South Africa dates back to 1881 and is steeped in very traditional banking culture. It also has more than a few mainframe applications to its name. Like other long-established banks, it’s now facing a challenge from new unicorn and Fintech start-ups, which has led in turn to a very aggressive digitalisation journey. Part of that required accepting early on that many traditional ways of working needed to be re-evaluated, with both agile and DevOps practices rising right to the top of the requirements list, says Devi Moodley, Executive Enterprise Dev/Ops and Release Management at the bank: