In my last blog, I examined how the use of Big Data Analytics can help organisations make some real headway in making improved decisions about their strategic IT planning. Now let’s zoom right in to a single system and show how this could be done in practical terms: The diagram … Continue reading article
Big Data Analytics is definitely the latest clever must have stuff from the technology and consultancy vendors. So what is it for? Is it relevant to your business? Should you be paying attention to it? You may have heard something like: “Analytics will monetise your business data.” A big claim … Continue reading article
It’s the perennial dinner-party problem: how to distil the whole essence of your job into just a word or two. Too precise and they won’t have a clue what you mean, too vague and you look boring. My business card says “Senior Analyst” but that doesn’t tell you what it … Continue reading article
I joined ranks of the Twitterati in 2011. Twitter is a great technology to configure data feeds relevant to your interests. I use it to keep track of local events, travel, data science and the latest beers in the local craft beer shop. According to Wikipedia’s Twitter article, there are … Continue reading article
Latency is a continual challenge in trading systems. In High Frequency Trading (HFT) systems, the challenge is immediate and obvious: if your order isn’t in first, you won’t hit the liquidity you’re after. In other systems, it might not be so obvious, but it’s still an issue. For example, if … Continue reading article
In 1991, I won the creative writing prize in junior school with a phonological delight that started: “Clouds, clustered in clumps, like balls of cotton wool’. It was a Homeresque masterpiece of about a hundred stanzas whose chief literary technique was unrelenting alliteration (a favourite employ of the post-kindergarten bespeckled … Continue reading article
For those of us who have been in this game for a few years now, we can cast our minds back over our working lives and look at how the end user computing device has evolved. I for one, on starting my first post-graduation job, had an IBM 3270 style … Continue reading article
As a bit of an avid gamer, I’ve been affected by the Sony Playstation Network hack… While the reason for the hack hasn’t been shared yet, it’s clear that it’s had a massive impact on the user base. Password and personal details have been compromised. Credit card details, although encrypted, … Continue reading article
We do a lot of work helping our clients understand the capacity of their IT systems and their headroom for growth based on projected volumes. I can see how this area is going to change as cloud technology is adopted… The need for traditional capacity management tools is going to … Continue reading article
Latency, n. The delay between the receipt of a stimulus and the response to it. The New Oxford American Dictionary The dictionary’s definition of latency is fairly straightforward, but its generality highlights some of the challenges in defining latency within trading systems: what stimuli and responses are we talking about? … Continue reading article
