Red Hat OpenShift was used in the construction of a new Business Integration Platform by Nationwide Building Society in order to achieve 99.999% service availability and expedite the deployment of updates and launches.

Nationwide sought to develop an event-driven platform for integration that could more effectively handle its system architecture, scale effectively when necessary, and connect to contemporary cloud-native apps in order to better service the growing digital expectations of its customers.

Using Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, two open hybrid cloud technologies, a new platform called Speed Layer was first created. In order to give the company the ability to react to events as they happen, Speed Layer was designed to collect precise real-time data. It is currently used as the cornerstone for all organizational strategic operations.

Utilizing Red Hat OpenShift, Nationwide may leverage open source technologies like MongoDB for database management and Kafka for distributed event storage and stream analysis to enable continuous service access even in the event of an outage. Data can now be made available to Nationwide's banking app more quickly because of Speed Layer's ability to reconcile over 100,000 data items per second using Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling.

Now, the platform may dynamically upgrade or provide new features for the developing society, and users can keep using services even in the event of unplanned or scheduled failures.

Now that the buildout is complete, Nationwide can scale and deploy apps over a variety of clouds. Red Hat OpenShift is presently supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-premises and installations using the public cloud of Amazon Web Services (AWS).

According to Grant Valentine, head of Nationwide Building Society's business integration platform, the BIP team is ready for the anticipated shift of crucial production workloads to the cloud in the coming year.