Opening Keynote by Dave Gledhill, CIO & Group Head Operations of DBS Bank

1. © 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its Affiliates. All rights reserved.
Dave Gledhill
Chief information Officer
and Group Head Operations
DBS Bank

2. MOVING
FAST
By Dave Gledhill
CIO and Head of Group
Technology & Operations

4. 1994 Banking is necessary,
but banks are not
Bill Gates, 1994
2017
We are still here…

7. Back in 2014

9. ~11.6seconds
Mean time between
deployments (weekday)

10. Customer Science
1000 concurrent active experiments

12. Shift from
“Project” to
“Product”
Design for
modern
systems
Automate
everything
Organise for
success
Develop high
performing
Agile teams
Gandalf cheesewheel

13. Gandalf Transformation Targets by 2018
Increase release
cycle up to 10x
Build for
Instrumentation,
experimentation,
APIs and
performance
Data driven culture,
analytics led
Customer Science
Become cloud
native, able to run
50% of workload in
the public cloud
Investing in People and Skills

15. >60times faster
78%
cheaperElastic
Load
Balancing
RDS
Amazon
Elasticsearch
AWS
Lambda
AWS
CloudFormation
AWS
CloudTrail
Amazon
CloudWatch
Amazon
SNS
Amazon Route
53
AWS
Certificate
Manager
AWS Identity
and Access
Management

16. From Mainframe to Microservices in 2 weeks
Amazon EC2
Container
Service
Amazon RDS
AWS Lambda
Elastic
Load
Balancing
Amazon
CloudWatch
AWS Identity
and Access
Management
HYSTRIXARCHAIUSEUREKARIBBON

18. • MVP - test & learn
• Automate First
• Refactor & get rid of legacy
middleware/database
• Push hard!
Lessons learned