https://steffen.hausmann.info/tags/coalesce/ Recent content in Coalesce on Steffen Hausmann Hugo -- 0.146.0 en Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://steffen.hausmann.info/posts/powering-real-time-loan-underwriting-at-vontive-with-materialize/ Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://steffen.hausmann.info/posts/powering-real-time-loan-underwriting-at-vontive-with-materialize/ <p>In the fast-paced world of mortgage lending, speed and accuracy are crucial. To support their underwriters, Vontive transformed written rules for loan eligibility from a Google Doc into SQL queries for evaluation in a Postgres database. However, while functional, this setup struggled to scale with business growth, resulting in slow, cumbersome processing times. Executing just a handful of loan eligibility rules could take up to 27 seconds–far too long for user-friendly interactions.</p>