A quick rundown of interesting tech stuff for the financially oriented software folks out there….

Interesting Article on Lehman’s Fixed Income Grid Implementation. They ultimately went with Platform’s Symphony grid solution after revewing offerings from Sun and the ever popular DataSynapse. Interesting read. Many people (like Matt) have talked about the trend for banks and the like to move from lots of small custom and/ or disparate grid solutions to ‘enterprise’ consolidated grid solutions. I am sure we will see lots of this…..

Here is a great article talking about a few of my favorite companies (hmm). This paper describes a solution that Wombat has put in place for Merrill Lynch in conjunction with 29West. In short – Wombat provides super low-latency data feed handlers for the exchanges of the world. They also provide an excellent set of APIs for the entire publishing, caching, etc of boat loads of market data. 29West’s Latency Busters Messaging product is “a fast, efficient, and lightweight messaging system” used for data broadcasting. Together they have been able to put together solution for ML that is worth reading about.

Marc chats up a topic near and dear to my heart here – the performance of desktop trading applications.

Here are just a few magnificent technologies that are worth using (or at least reading up on!)

Kdb+ (from those Kdb folks)
A more recent fav StreamBase
Been watching these folks for a while after a friend sent a ref to me last year Progress Apama Algorithmic Trading Platform
Vhayu – My same friend sent me a link on these guys last year too. Recent interest in Wombat stuff has brought them to my attention again.
More ESP suff from Aleri Labs

Go if you can – High Performance On Wall St

Subscribe if you can – Dealing With Technology

Enough blabber. I have just had all this stuff in a Firefox session and been reading it all for 2 weeks again and again.

FUN WITH FINANCE AND TECH!

-Chris

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