How Macquarie Bank built a real-time payments platform in weeks

“There is no such thing as a perfect schema—as functionality is developed, it must evolve. That’s where a flexible document data model is important.”

“We appreciated the freedom it gave us. We no longer had to ask for a new instance of a database to be created, we could do that ourselves. Disk space, RAM, CPU... our team had control of all those features.”

“We didn’t want to walk through any one way doors,” said Chris. “With this solution we can run on any cloud provider we want.”

“We went live 2 months into the COVID pandemic. A flick of the switch and payments started flowing. We’ve had over 3 million transactions now. No issues, it just simply worked.”