Orca Catches Otherwise Unseen Errors in a Complex EnvironmentĬake’s AWS environment is made all the more complex by all the options AWS provides. Modern app approaches fully leveraging AWS cloud capabilities, Cake uses S3 buckets for storage, AWS Athena riding on top to query the buckets, and AWS KMS to encrypt all the databases at once. Cake’s three domains are fully separated, yet are connected by an event messaging bus that exchanges information among components. It then explores and builds new models, which are also deployed as microservices.Ī Cake-for-Business online portal runs separately from its other services.
That’s where all data aggregation and analysis is done, and where its data science environment plugs in. A set of microservices run Kotlin Java with a stack that surfaces everything pertaining to financial data.Ĭake runs Spark in a Kubernetes cluster. Except for a few scattered APIs, the company is all-in on AWS, where it has several accounts: one each for staging, QA, and production. But its built-from-scratch infrastructure is entirely in the cloud. With versions for both iOS and Android, the Cake app is mobile-only. It’s all real time and fits well with the level of monitoring we want to achieve.” A Cloud Environment Most Enterprises Would Envy “It gives us an overview of all vulnerabilities we have, and matters we can immediately act upon. He’s making it part of Cake’s permanent production process. Schelfhout truly appreciates that Orca is a tool that can be used every day, not every three months. Its compliance feature checks all kinds of policies that should be enabled in a cloud environment-especially in Amazon environments, which is what we really care about.” Peter Schelfhout Orca Security is a tool that lets us continuously scan our environment.” “Orca is fully cloud-native, so integrates well with AWS. Now we want to evolve to a more permanent monitoring and evaluation of our platform. We use third parties to do a first level check they check our architecture, penetration testing, and so on. Schelfhout says, “We built our infrastructure and security policies, and have audited it from the beginning. Orca Security Fits with Cake’s Continuous Monitoring Approach Shift Left Security helps companies build, develop and operate secure applications running in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or private clouds. It’s all very controlled here in Europe we have to comply with certain standards and expectations.”Ĭake was introduced to Orca Security by their trusted advisor Shift Left Security. Everything around our business model-our IT infrastructure, security, privacy-is part of our license. “Licensed by the National Bank of Belgium, we’re a regulated company with a passport for Europe. PSD2 makes the company’s business model possible, but strictly regulates the security and privacy of data passing through Cake’s app. It’s EU legislation that’s opening up the financial markets and data market inside of Europe,” he says. Partners can use the data to send specific offers to Cake’s users, who can earn cash-back Rewards if they accept an offer.Įurope is the ideal location for the startup company to launch its business, according to Head of Engineering Pieter Schelfhout. It brings together all of a person’s bank accounts, provides insights into their financial data, and helps them optimize their daily income and spending.Ĭake also has a commercial offering for partners and retailers that provides reports and insights based on aggregated, anonymized data. It’s supported by a unique business model that shares revenue with users. Cake is a Unique New Banking App for European ConsumersĬake’s mobile banking app analyzes a person’s financial transactional data to help them better understand, control, and improve their finances.
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