How Norway’s Banking Engineers Deliver 35M Requests a Day with Confidence | The Engineering Room Ep. 38

In this episode, Dave Farley explores how SpareBank One transformed their software development approach with Ola Hast (Developer) and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom (Senior Developer). Working at Norway's second-largest banking alliance serving 1.2 million users, they reveal how pair programming became absolutely essential to achieving true continuous delivery.

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Supporting Links: Ola & Asgaut's QCon talk "Continuous Delivery Is Not Possible without Pair Programming": https://www.infoq.com/presentations/cd-pair-programming/ SINTEF

Research into Pair Programming in the Bank: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19511