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Fidelity’s SRE Error Budgets at Work

Consider Maria, a retiree relying on her Fidelity Investments portfolio for steady income. During a volatile market day with surging trade volumes, she logs into her app to adjust her holdings. The platform handles the load flawlessly, executing her trades without delay or error. Behind the scenes, Fidelity's SRE team…

A Trader’s Close Call: UBS’s AI Shields Against Hidden Risks

Meet Alex, a seasoned trader at UBS in Zurich, executing high-stakes deals on a volatile market day. As he inputs a complex derivative trade, an subtle anomaly—a mismatched data pattern—flashes on his screen, halted instantly by an AI alert. What could have spiraled into a multimillion-dollar error is caught early,…

How Capital One Masters Resilience with Chaos Engineering

Sarah, a single mom and small business owner, is juggling a hectic morning when she logs into the Capital One mobile app to pay her suppliers. As she hits “confirm” on a critical transfer, the app stutters briefly but recovers instantly. Unseen by Sarah, this was no glitch—it was a…

Repair-as-a-learning service:Team Repair

Fixing broken things is not for everyone. But if you are young, it is one of the better pathways to learn concepts and gain hands-on experience. That's the belief of Team Repair team who have established a interesting business model around it. Team Repair through its innovative repai-as-a-service to learn,…

Japan Post’s Mimamori service to elderly

As the global population of elderly (65+) increases, the challenges to keep them safe, healthy, engaged and contented is an area of focus for several countries. Japan has one of the highest percentage of elderly people and the rate seems to be increasing every year. Japan has introduced several innovative…

Technology revolutionized through Aristotle’s philosophy

George Boole showed that a mathematical approach could be applied to logic, making it amenable to calculation. He took the principles of logic and reduced them to a simple form of algebra, now widely known as Boolean algebra. Interestingly, Boole acknowledged that, Boolean Algebra is build upon the philosophy defined…

Elevating performance through elevator innovations

We all know how elevators are quintessential feature of our day to day lives. Beyond their functional use, the innovations developed by elevator industry can act as a true inspiration to many other disciplines. It is estimated that typically 40% of energy in the world is consumed by buildings and…

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