Mark Beerens, senior product manager at ING, explores the transformative journey of API management at ING, as presented at the recent Kong API Summit 2025. Beerens provides insights on adopting microservices, a crucial step in modernizing ING's IT infrastructure, and discusses how the summit's themes align with the company's strategic goals.
In this video, Beerens shares their expertise in cloud API management and highlights strategic transitions at ING Private Cloud. Hosted by Nashawaty of theCUBE Research, the discussion emphasizes key themes from the summit and how ING navigates the shift from monolithic structures to a microservices-based landscape. Beerens details the cultural and technical challenges faced during this innovative transition.
Key takeaways include Beerens' emphasis on the importance of gradual implementation over a 'big bang' approach to microservices. According to Beerens and analysts at theCUBE, ING prioritizes empowering developers while managing complexities and skill gaps with the help of Kong's solutions. Beerens shares valuable lessons learned, advocating for awareness of both cultural and technical shifts during such transformations.
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Mark Beerens, ING Bank
Mark Beerens, senior product manager at ING, explores the transformative journey of API management at ING, as presented at the recent Kong API Summit 2025. Beerens provides insights on adopting microservices, a crucial step in modernizing ING's IT infrastructure, and discusses how the summit's themes align with the company's strategic goals.
In this video, Beerens shares their expertise in cloud API management and highlights strategic transitions at ING Private Cloud. Hosted by Nashawaty of theCUBE Research, the discussion emphasizes key themes from the summit and how ING navigates the shift from monolithic structures to a microservices-based landscape. Beerens details the cultural and technical challenges faced during this innovative transition.
Key takeaways include Beerens' emphasis on the importance of gradual implementation over a 'big bang' approach to microservices. According to Beerens and analysts at theCUBE, ING prioritizes empowering developers while managing complexities and skill gaps with the help of Kong's solutions. Beerens shares valuable lessons learned, advocating for awareness of both cultural and technical shifts during such transformations.
In this conversation at the Kong API Summit 2025, theCUBE Research’s Paul Nashawaty sits down with Mark Beerens, senior product manager for cloud API management at ING Bank, to unpack ING’s shift from a monolithic core to a flexible, microservices-powered landscape. Beerens explains how ING adopted a gradual, no-“big bang” approach: carving out services, sharing learnings across teams and re-skilling engineers while balancing culture and technology. He details why a hybrid cloud design (control plane on Azure, data planes on-prem) and developer “paved roads” ...Read more
