Before the 1970s, and this is actually very hard to imagine today, it took at least a day for a transaction to register in a bank account, because each bank branch had its own servers. The data from each branch wasn’t synched until the end of the day, after all transactions had been completed. As mainframes and telecommunication capabilities became more available, banks were among the early adopters of these technologies, revolutionizing that paradigm.

These changes created what we now refer to as core banking. Core (

We had a great time at Red Hat Summit this year, speaking to hundreds of attendees. Part of what we wanted to learn at the event was who was there, what they were interested in, and what was the biggest priority for their organization going forward. We learned a lot, and we’re happy to share the results with everyone.

First of all, who visited our booth? Well, in short, all kinds of wonderful people visited our booth and took the survey (and brought home a sock monkey)—

As the reality of our Sofia office moved from concept (one engineer working from home) to reality (six engineers working together in a real office), it seemed that the time was ripe to have one of our almost-quarterly Engineering Summits in Bulgaria. We still have several open positions there so I felt it was a good opportunity to meet some of our recruitment partners and personally reaffirm our commitment to investing in, and growing, our office there. We believe that the strong engineering talent we are continuing to find in Sofia will