Bloomberg Open Symbology, F2 & FIX Interactive Interface Definition Language - game-changer?

On this blog we've discussed the intersection of market data and FIX more than a few times (a list of links follows at the end).

VirtualBox, Solace Systems Virtual Message Router and SolCache

"Solcache is a scalable, in-memory message cache for Direct messaging that allows clients using Solace messaging APIs to request the most current messages for a topic of interest when they come online, or when they start subscribing to topics that they were not originally subscribed to." -- Solace_SolCache_Guide_R71_Iss01.pdf page 15.

Security, the right way

Working with clients in financial services has meant that at all times I have had to fit into the corporate security model employed by the firm. With a diverse range of firms I have seen different levels of security.  At one extreme has been a number of Swiss firms.

DevOps

The below picture ("Worked fine in Dev, Ops problem now) is one that I am sure many readers will have seen. 

Vendor relationship management

A look at the world of vendor relationship management...

Middleware: RESTful interfaces ActiveMQ vs RabbitMQ vs Solace Systems

One use-case for Message Oriented Middleware is to provide a RESTful endpoint. This post looks at some options for how to do this for a specific use case:

Microsoft Excel Wishlist: Please integrate with R

Further to previous post "Excel VBA – does it have a future?", a recent discussion about the future of Excel brought the participants to an interesting conclusion...