BSS Microservice Platform

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2022: Completion of Microservice Platform Project

The project to create a microservice platform BSS with grant support has been completed. Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT) The BSS development company announced this on June 7, 2022.

A year and a half has passed from the moment of submitting an application for a project to create a microservice platform to the final acceptance of its results by the Foundation and the independent experts involved.

The project was implemented in three stages with the full assistance of the Fund itself. BSS promptly received a comprehensive list of proposals from experts on how to improve the performance of the project so that it meets the priorities for the development of IT in Russia. Experts were specialists of the Foundation, development institutions, industry, associations, state-owned companies.

Thus, at the first stage, the BSS team formed the foundation of a ready-made vendor replicated solution based on a microservice architecture for the provision of banking products in electronic channels. In particular, the platform system base was developed, a containerized environment based on Docker and Kubernetes was deployed, CI/CD assembly pipelines were built, and a development infrastructure was organized.

At the second stage, blocks of application functionality are implemented, allowing users to remotely receive information about documents and products of the bank, as well as send electronic documents to the bank.

During the final third stage, the system was prepared to the level of a replicated industrial solution, registration, promotion and preparation for implementation in. Ahead of banks of the Russian Federation the two-year stage of commercialization of the project results and further development. During the first year, a microservice platform will be installed in banks, Russia primarily to existing BSS customers.

During the project, a large number of new and interesting tasks on infrastructure, architecture and project metrics were solved. The BSS team brought the production discipline to a qualitatively different level, laid a reliable foundation for the further development of the microservice platform, formed a vision for further technological development, gained special practical experience and made interesting discoveries. We are very grateful to the RFRIT team, industry experts, Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation Maksut Shadayev for this opportunity, - said Dmitry Svalov, Technical Director of BSS.

BSS's micro-service architecture vendor solution will allow any bank to compete with digital industry leaders and provide customers with relevant services and products, thanks to the rapid adaptation of processes to new conditions and minimization of Time-To-Market (T2M). The implementation of the project will help solve problems import substitution and provide Russian banks with all the advantages of this Russian software product. At the same time, the decision will be competitive not only in the Russian market, but also countries CIS in foreign countries, - commented the general director of BSS. Georgy Kravchenko

2021

Completion of the second development phase

RFRIT accepted the results of the second stage of development of the vendor solution BSS at. microservice architecture BSS announced this on December 21, 2021.

During this stage, blocks of application functionality were implemented, allowing users to remotely receive information about documents and products of the bank, as well as send electronic documents to the bank. In particular, the following were developed and tested:

• "Unified Operations Tape (" All Documents ")" - provides the client with an interface for working with documents of the "Deposits" and "NSO" blocks.
• "Deposits" - registration of deposits in the RBS system and viewing information on their deposit products.
• "NSO" - installation of an irreducible account balance (NSO) through the RBS system, as well as viewing information on available NSO products.
• "Loans" - registration of loans in the RBS system and viewing information on available credit products.

BSS General Director Georgy Kravchenko in his address to the team expressed gratitude for the successful implementation of the next stage of a significant project for the whole country.

The creation of a vendor solution based on microservice architecture is an ambitious task for BSS and an important contribution to the future of the economy of our country, in the matter of import substitution. We took on great responsibility, which we cope with efficiently and on time. Our mission is to make the microservice platform available to all banks, to ensure competition with digital leaders, to contribute to closing the digital gap. The attention of the professional community is riveted to our project, we see genuine interest in the microservice platform on the part of banks, not only Russian, but also foreign, - said Georgy Kravchenko.

The purpose of the final third stage is to bring the system to the level of a replicated industrial solution, register, promote and prepare for implementation in Russian banks.

Microservice Platform View

On November 1, 2021, BSS presented its development - a microservice platform - the future of digital banking services.

Technical Director of BSS Svalov Dmitry spoke about the goals of creating, technological stack and platform architecture. He paid important attention to topics sensitive to banks - the delivery, deployment, monitoring and logging of a microservice platform.

The BSS microservice platform is being developed with the participation of the Russian Information Technology Development Fund (RFRIT). In December 2020, BSS won a RFRIT grant to create the first Russian vendor solution on a microservice architecture to provide RBS services. In February 2021, the project started. Taking into account the measures to protect the project before the fund, in April 2022 BSS will be ready to bring the platform to market. As early as November 2021, banks were actively interested in the first vendor microservice RBS, there are several agreements on implementations.

The BSS microservice platform is a combination of infrastructure and management software. It includes a set of system microservices that enable the operation of applied product microservices, monitoring software, libraries and components to simplify the creation of new services, technologies, approaches and techniques for developing, maintaining and delivering solutions in a microservice architecture.

Unlike microservice, in a monolithic architecture for the release of a product, it is necessary to check the correct operation of the entire system functionality, as well as synchronize releases for various business customers from dozens of banks, and accept all transferred functionality on the bank side.

The key qualities of the BSS microservice platform are rapid delivery, simplification of joint development, implementation of individual products. The BSS solution will give banks a higher T2M speed, flexibility, that is, the possibility of partial replacement and modernization of the functionality of the current RBS system and freedom - greater independence with joint development with the vendor, "Dmitry Svalov emphasized.