Bank History
Containers
IPE Org
Modern Infrastructure
Developer Experience
100

On this year US Bank was established

when is 1863

100

An open-source container-orchestration system for automating computer application deployment, scaling, and management.

What is Kubernetes?

100

IPE is an acronym for this organization.

What is infrastructure and platform engineering?

100

An approach to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration in order to improve network performance and monitoring, making it more like cloud computing than traditional network.

What is SDN?

100

This platform is design to improve the developer experience at the bank.

what is the shield platform

200

This place where US Bank was established.

where is Portland?

200

This automated capability was added to to the CPS platform for storage management. Also can be found in the hand of Neptune.

What is Trident?

200

These three objectives form the goals of the IPE organization.

What is improve availability, developer experience, and cost optimization?

200

On-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user.

What is the cloud?

200

This platform is being implemented to automate configuration management at the bank. 

what is Salt?

300

This bank that merged with US Bank in 1991

Who is First Star

300

A set of platform as a service products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages.  Also a popular brand of pants.

What is docker?

300

This person supports the IPE organization from an HR perspective.

Who is Christy Christensen?

300

Software-defined IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the elements of conventional "hardware-defined" systems. Including, at a minimum, virtualized computing, software-defined storage, and virtualized networking.

What is HCI?

300

The standard interval for a agile sprint at the bank.

What is 2 weeks?

400

Andy Cecere succeeded this CEO. He joined our company more than three decades earlier in 1985 and helped engineer the mergers and acquisitions of the late 1990s and early 2000s before ascending into roles including chief financial officer and chief operating officer.

who is Richard Davis?

400

A category of cloud computing services that provides a platform allowing customers to develop, run, and manage application functionalities without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an app.

What is FaaS or Function as a Service?

400

This IPE employee has been at the Bank for the least amount of time.

Who is Russ Abrams? or Who is Kelly Moore?

400

A deployment strategy in which you create two separate, but identical environments. One environment is running the current application version and one environment is running the new application version. 

What is Blue-Green or Canary?

400

This command line interface is used by developers and also part of an atom.

What is Nucleus?

500

This year, we also celebrated our 150th anniversary by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Andy Cecere, was joined by a group of long-tenured and active military or veteran employees.

what is 2013?

500

The original code name for kubernetes at Google.  This is a reference to a star trek character.

What is project 7?

500

This retiring employee has been at US Bank for 49 years....  Congratulations!!!!!!

Who is Debbie Michaud?

500

A dedicated infrastructure layer for facilitating service-to-service communications between services or microservices, using a proxy. Often deployed as a side-car

What is service mesh or Istio?

500

A programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that expresses the logic of a computation without describing its control flow and is being adopted in enterprise pipeline 2.0.

What is declarative programming?