How Nanjing Bank Achieved Leading DevOps Maturity with Its Digital Credit Card
This article details Nanjing Bank's successful passage of the CAICT DevOps Continuous Delivery Level 3 assessment for its digital credit card project, highlighting the bank's DevOps practices, challenges, benefits, and future plans within a broader digital transformation context.
On December 26, 2022, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) announced the latest batch of DevOps and AIOps standard assessment results. Nanjing Bank’s Digital Credit Card project passed the “Continuous Delivery Level 3” assessment, demonstrating leading domestic DevOps capability.
Interview with Yu Jie, Deputy General Manager of IT
Yu introduced Nanjing Bank, its digital credit card project, and the bank’s overall digital transformation strategy.
Q: How does it feel to achieve Level 3? Yu expressed pride in the project’s success and thanked the assessors for their guidance.
Q: Why did the bank join the DevOps assessment? To respond quickly to business changes, improve delivery efficiency, and validate the agile transformation.
Q: What benefits has the assessment brought? The team introduced automated build, deployment, unit testing, code scanning, and quality gates, achieving end‑to‑end continuous delivery and higher delivery efficiency.
Q: What challenges were encountered? Integrating heterogeneous toolchains and balancing project work with daily tasks required significant effort and cross‑department collaboration.
Q: What are the next steps? The bank will codify DevOps practices into its software process management system and promote the successful model to other projects.
Technical Highlights of the Digital Credit Card Project
The front‑end is built on WeChat mini‑programs and public accounts, while the back‑end runs on the “XinYun+” cloud platform using the SOFA distributed service architecture, providing high availability and scalability for complex internet‑facing transactions.
DevOps Standard Overview
The “R&D‑Operations Integrated (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model” was jointly developed by CAICT, the Cloud Computing Open Source Alliance, major internet companies, and leading financial and telecom enterprises. It is the first comprehensive DevOps standard in China and was adopted as an international standard by ITU‑T in 2020.
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