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Trisha Gee wrote a new blog post titled MongoDB and Java
So, like one of my presentations, I have a question for you. Actually, I have more than one question for you. I'm not going to bother with survey monkey or whatever, I want to share the answers so please, answers in the comments:Are you using the Java driver for MongoDB in your application?Are you using the Java driver directly, or are you using a third party library like Morphia, Spring Data, the Scala driver, you're own abstraction layer, etc?If you're using a third party library, why did you choose that over using the Java driver directly?If you're using the Java driver...
4 days ago
Progress Software wrote a new blog post titled Choose Your Own Path: Buy, Build or Both?
By Theo Hildyard at the Progress Software Capital Markets Blog
Imagine this scenario: you represent a firm doing business in capital markets whose business model depends on innovative and agile use of technology. You are being impacted by the recent regulatory initiatives requiring brokers-dealers to have better risk controls in place with respect to Automated Trading and HFT. These changes may have come from ESMA in Europe, SEBI in India, ASIC in Australia or any number of jurisdictions around the world – take your pick.
What is common to all...
4 days ago
Sam Tyfield wrote a new blog post titled Accurate Time Stamping
The National Physics Laboratory (the NPL) held an interesting Q&A this morning on accurate time stamping. The presentation also involved the UK FCA and the (ex-)Chief Scientific Adviser to HMG, Sir John Beddington. The main topic of the discussion was what role Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (of which NPL is the UK’s ‘keeper’) could play in time stamping for the financial markets.
The FCA’s concerns were that:
the markets and their regulators should have accurate time stamps in published data;
as many regulators, venues and market participants...
6 days ago
Trisha Gee wrote a new blog post titled Good overview of the NoSQL hype for Real Developers
Last Tuesday I went to a London Java Community talk which promised to debunk the hype around NoSQL. Whether you're already bought into a NoSQL technology, or you're just wondering what all the noise is about, it's worth an hour out of your day to see Akmal Chaudhri's comprehensive summary of the technologies out there.Skillsmatter recorded the whole thing, as usual, so you can watch the presentation for yourself. I promise neither I nor anyone else from 10gen paid him to mention MongoDB so much.
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