Lucas Cavalcanti on Using Clojure, Microservices, Hexagonal Architecture and Public Cloud at Nubank

In this episode of the InfoQ podcast Charles Humble talks to Lucas Cavalcanti, a Principal Engineer at Nubank, which is the leading FinTech in Latin America and has become the most valuable digital bank in the world. They discuss Nubank’s early architectural choices including starting with Clojure and microservices, the challenges of using public cloud for financial services in Brazil, Nubank’s desire for immutable architecture and use of Alistair Cockburn's Hexagonal Architecture, and lessons learnt as the startup scaled. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3m6wXMQ Subscribe to our newsletters: - The InfoQ weekly newsletter: bit.ly/24x3IVq - The Software Architects’ Newsletter [monthly]: https://www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter/ Upcoming Virtual Events - https://events.infoq.com/ InfoQ Live: https://live.infoq.com/ - September 21, 2021 - October 19, 2021 QCon Plus online conference: https://plus.qconferences.com/ - November 1-12, 2021 Follow InfoQ: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/infoq - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom/ - Instagram: @infoqdotcom - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/infoq