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Market Data APIs
Earlier this year, as one of Sinara’s founding directors, I participated in a financial market data industry panel that covered the topic of Market Data APIs. This Blog post covers some of my views on the subjects discussed at that event, based on my industry experience and role as one of the system architects of (more…)
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SignalR Coding Best Practices
ASP.NET SignalR is a library for adding real-time web functionality to applications. It allows server-side code to push content to connected clients as it happens, in real-time. We are seeing more and more SignalR applications come along. Whether it is the preferred technology or not, I think most .NET web-app developers will have to get comfortable (more…)
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When I started my career as a software developer over 30 years ago the waterfall model was the main game in town and my role was module design, code and unit test. The design was “Structured”, the coding language Z80 Assembler and C, but the unit tests? Well to be honest, unit testing was just (more…)
CONTINUE READINGDynamically Generating Excel Workbooks
Recently, developers here at Sinara have built a number of applications that have involved dynamically generating large numbers of Excel spreadsheets from database tables. In some cases, the spreadsheets had simple layouts, with just raw numbers in cells, whilst others had more sophisticated formatting and charts. In addition to the core functionality, the performance of the (more…)
CONTINUE READINGSupporting ‘problem’ IT systems
We all know that when looking at the lifetime of any software project, that the longest phase is support and maintenance. It’s the unglamorous, but highly important task of keeping the system running and often changing it to fit in with changing business or technical requirements. Larger organisations with well-developed project processes normally plan this (more…)
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Having told everybody we meet that Sinara are experts in IT systems for Financial Market Data, we decided to put this to the test by getting one of our consultants to take the FISD’s Financial Information Associate (FIA) exam. We’re delighted that our consultant Hamish Adourian has passed the exam with flying colours so can (more…)
CONTINUE READINGSinara add citi-cats data to market data platform
As online brokers seek new services and opportunities to provide for their clients, some look to the various off-exchange venues to distinguish themselves. As a supplier of a market data platform, (SinaraMDP) it is important for Sinara to be able to adapt to these new data demands, by having a software design that is flexible enough (more…)
CONTINUE READINGWelcome to the Sinara Consultants blog
Welcome to the Sinara Consultants blog. This is where we will be sharing news about interesting things we are working on plus opinions and commentary on technical and business issues that impact the daily lives of the Sinara team and our clients. As 2014 is Sinara’s 25th anniversary, we’ll also be including some articles and (more…)
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