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Cloud
Hamish Adourian

Making sense of message queues

Introduction When designing complex trading operational systems composed of multiple specialised processes, ensuring reliable, effective communication among them can be a significant challenge. Traditional approaches, such as remote procedure calls or direct binary protocols, can introduce tight coupling and inefficiencies in certain scenarios. For very high performance, low latency links, that may be acceptable and sometimes necessary, but what about the many other pathways within systems that are less time-sensitive? Interprocess communication techniques To start with, it’s worth reminding ourselves of the wide range of approaches to managing communication between separate processes. Focusing on the .NET ecosystem, we can think

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Introduction to Kubernetes (K8s)

Financial firms are increasingly keen to embrace cloud technology in new software solutions, or indeed in migrating existing systems over to the cloud. The advantages and disadvantages of the cloud aside, many of the new

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OWASP Security Standards for Web Applications

Any good developer knows that security, especially in web applications, is an ever-changing field and it’s important to keep up to date. It’s also a complex field, so you should never try “rolling your own”

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Reflections on LME’s Sustainability Morning

Introduction Commodity trading has always had a difficult relationship with sustainability and environmental protection. With COP26 now concluded, there continues to remain an opportunity for the commodity markets to find a key role in this

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