Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank

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16/08/2021 35 min
Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank

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In this episode of the InfoQ podcast Charles Humble talks to Lucas Cavalcanti, a Principal Engineer at Nubank, which is the leading FinTech in Latin America and has become the most valuable digital bank in the world. They discuss Nubank’s early architectural choices including starting with Clojure and microservices, the challenges of using public cloud for financial services in Brazil, Nubank’s desire for immutable architecture and use of Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture, and lessons learnt as the startup scaled.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3m6wXMQ

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