Last week Nationwide Building Society achieved something significant: after nearly a year of regulatory delays, our new website finally went live.
It's clean, modern and concise, but there's more to the story than a redesign. The technology and approach were all new, a series of firsts:
- Nationwide's first platinum service in the cloud
- Nationwide's first cloud-native deployment on Microsoft Azure, built on enterprise hub/spoke landing zones
- Nationwide's first GraphQL API
- Nationwide's first Sitecore headless CMS, built on our in-house React design system and Sitecore JSS
- Nationwide's first statically generated Jamstack website, built with Next.js with help from our friends at Uniform
This was delivered by a predominantly permanent team who went on a multi-year journey to the cloud and Kubernetes. The tech stack wasn't the only thing that changed; our ways of working did too. An agile and DevOps transformation turned us into a well-oiled, highly automated machine with a route to live measured in hours, not weeks.
Hats off to everyone involved.
Originally posted on LinkedIn
