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During your time at Lloyds Bank from December 2019 to January 2022, how did you contribute to improving scalability through the implementation of applications into the Azure cloud?
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Alright, so at Lloyds Bank, December 2019 to January 2022, improving scalability was a big deal. We needed to make sure that our applications could handle increasing traffic and data volumes without impacting performance. Azure cloud was the answer. The main product that my team were working on was migrating applications to Azure.One of the key things I did was to help migrate applications from on-premises infrastructure to Azure. This involved re-architecting the applications to take advantage of Azure's scalability features, such as auto-scaling and load balancing. Before the migration, these apps could not scale up quickly or effectively to deal with demand. Azure's global distribution network also allows the apps to have a much lower latency. With the new version of the application, we were able to leverage the native features, such as load balancers and app gateways, which made the application faster and more resilient.I also helped to implement a microservices architecture, which involved breaking down large, monolithic applications into smaller, independent services. This made it easier to scale individual components of the application as needed. This was done with Kubernetes to orchestrate the containers that hosted these microservices.In addition to re-architecting the applications, I also worked on optimizing the underlying infrastructure. This included configuring virtual machines with the right amount of CPU, memory, and storage, as well as optimizing network settings. I also worked on optimizing databases by using Azure SQL Database and Cosmos DB.The impact of these efforts was significant. We were able to improve the scalability of our applications by several orders of magnitude. This allowed us to handle peak loads without any performance degradation. As well as scalability, Azure provided other benefits, such as security and performance improvements.We were able to deliver higher availability and enhanced performance, while being more scalable. I was proud to have contributed to this effort. During my time at Lloyds Bank from December 2019 to January 2022, I helped improve scalability by migrating applications to Azure, re-architecting them for auto-scaling and load balancing, and implementing a microservices architecture. This involved optimizing virtual machine configurations, network settings, and databases, resulting in significant scalability improvements and enhanced application performance.