FinTech Labs

Some real-world fintech cloud-native applications.

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1. Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

This lab demonstrates how to provisions a secure and scalable AWS infrastructure for an application.

2. LLM financial assistant

This application is a financial data explorer that uses an LLM agent to retrieve and analyze financial performance for Safaricom Ltd and Equity Bank from 2021 to 2024.

3. Automated savings service

This application demonstrates how to design and implement, with best-practises, an automated recurring savings API with Bank Integration (Equity Bank).

4. A low-latency, high-load resilient micro-service

This application demonstrates how to design and implement a low-latency, high-load resilient micro-service application and how to load-test the design using Grafana - k6.

5. Fraud Detection data pipeline

This application demonstrates how to craft a data pipeline that trains a fraud-detection model and applies to applies it to incoming transaction data.

6. Monitoring & alerts for cloud apps

This lab demonstrates how to craft an application monitoring stack with cloud-observability tools Prometheus and Grafana.