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Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
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Re: Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
German speaking financial institutions are a special kind of IT hell. Perhaps it's a cultural love for rules in combination with compliance that evolves in a hellish bureaucracy, perhaps it's something in the local beer. We can only speculate but I've never worked in an environment as dysfunctional as the ones I've seen at big German companies. To give a few examples: - Running all services under a single Linux accou…
I have some of these too. - technologies had to be evaluated to be allowed on the network. This process took years. Git (as a replacement for subversion) had been in evaluation for over 14 years at the time. - network authentication mechanisms made building an http/s Webservice internally impossible without the security teams approval which takes months. - ironically the 'rules' around 'security' were regularly broke…
Achtung baby
Re: Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
#173Sounds like every other major bank's IT environment.
Re: Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
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#175As a firstborn American nerd with 100% German ancestors, it’s basically been frustrating my entire life to watch Germany whiff on basically any computer- or Internet-related technology. I can't even attribute it to the language barrier since they're all taught English at an early age. Perhaps it's that old German pride/hubris/NIH? “Stolz”… They’re a very smart people, not sure what gives. Perhaps a lack of respect fo…
I'm not saying you're completely wrong from a business perspective, but the open source hobbyist community on the other hand is pretty big here. Just the structures haven't kept up.
That's a good clarification.
Re: Deutsche Bank's “dysfunctional” IT division (2018)
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
This thingy: https://extranet.bundesbank.de/ams How they describe it: https://www.bundesbank.de/en/service/reporting-systems/exter... Any single transaction exceeding 12500€ entering (or leaving) Germany has to be manually reported here. So for example if you're living in Germany and working remotely as a contractor for a US based company you'll probably have to report your income every month. There are many exceptio…
> This thingy: https://extranet.bundesbank.de/ams My favourite thing on that website is the script block inside a noscript tag that they actually expect to run. Things like that tend to suggest the developers have absolutely no idea how to code for a web browser.
That's one way to implement a feature flag I guess, not the way many sane people would choose.