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Loans give people more financial security. If people know that they can receive a loan, they will be more willing to take intelligent risks. A loan can allow for a short-term investment that pays off enough to justify the interest rate on that loan.

For the lender, a loan can be a fantastic return on capital–as long as the lendee does not default. When banks were the rulers of the financial infrastructure, most of them would err on the side of caution when it came to lending. They would adhere strictly to credit scores, and a wanting customer would be out of luck if they did not have a credit score, or if their credit score had gotten lower than acceptable.

Newer fintech companies are taking advantage of data sources other than credit scores. They are using machine learning in conjunction with these new data sources to find viable lendees who would be overlooked by traditional institutions.

Ofer Mendelevitch is the VP of data science at LendUp. He joins the show to explain why loans are important, how LendUp functions, and the machine learning systems that power an intelligent system of lending.

Developers love Docker Containers because they give applications portability and consistency all the way from your laptop into production. Amazon EC2 Container Service from Amazon Web Services makes it easy to run Docker apps in the cloud. With Amazon EC2 Container Service, deploying, operating and scaling your infrastructure happens automatically. Best of all, you only pay for the AWS compute and storage resources you use. With Amazon EC2 Container Service, you can focus on building apps, not managing your container infrastructure. Learn more at ecs.aws today.

Bugsnag improves the task of troubleshooting errors by making it more enjoyable and less time-consuming. For example, when an error occurs, your team can get notified via Slack, see diagnostic information on the error, and identify the developer who committed the code. Bugsnag’s integration with Jira and other collaboration tools makes it easy to assign and track bugs as they are being fixed. There is a special offer for Software Engineering Daily listeners. Try all features free for 60 days at bugsnag.com/sedaily. Development teams can now iterate faster and improve software quality. To get started, go to bugsnag.com/sedaily/. Get up and running in three minutes. Airbnb, Lyft, and Shopify all use Bugsnag to monitor application errors.  

Spring Framework gives developers an environment for building cloud native projects. On December 4th-7th, SpringOne Platform is coming to San Francisco. SpringOne Platform is a conference where developers congregate to explore the latest technologies in the Spring ecosystem and beyond. Speakers at SpringOne Platform include Eric Brewer (who created the CAP theorem), Vaughn Vernon (who writes extensively about Domain Driven Design), and many thought leaders in the Spring Ecosystem. SpringOne Platform is the premier conference for those who build, deploy, and run cloud-native software. Software Engineering Daily listeners can sign up with the discount code SEDaily100 and receive $100 off of a Spring One Platform conference pass. I will also be at SpringOne reporting on developments in the cloud native ecosystem. Join me December 4th-7th at the SpringOne Platform conference, and use discount code SEDaily100 for $100 off your conference pass.

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