The technology landscape is changing at an ever-accelerating speed, and established financial institutions are facing stiff competition from FinTech startups. Rigid architectures, based around risk-avoidance, become a blocker to innovation, where small agile operations can try new things without remorse. Users have gotten accustomed to always-available, instant services, where processing in daily or monthly batches just don't cut it anymore.
In this session we will share how Rakuten Card has transformed a dinosaur-era processing system into a modern Java EE platform, and how Jakarta EE will help us embrace the best technologies and solutions to empower our continued growth. Learn how a mainframe architecture can be evolved incrementally and systematically, without risking the day-to-day business.