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Sinara celebrates 30th Anniversary in 2019

Sinara Consultants Limited is delighted to be celebrating our 30th anniversary in 2019. Over all that time we’ve designed, written and supported a lot of

April 4, 2019

SignalR Coding Best Practices – Revisited

Nearly 3 years ago, I wrote a short blog post on basic best practices for using SignalR to add real-time functionality to web applications. Since then, our teams at Sinara have built many more web applications of varying complexity using SignalR, and have gradually refined our technique over time. In this blog post, I’ll (more…)

May 15, 2018

Using LINQ for Data Access

Data access is an underlying aspect of almost all applications, whether through external sources such as XML and databases, or information internal to the application. For a long time, despite advancements in object-oriented programming, there was a lack of good facilities for querying and manipulating data. Then, along came .NET Language Integrated Query (LINQ), (more…)

April 19, 2018

Machine Learning

The amount of data that gets generated by companies is continuously growing – the term “Big Data” is commonly used to describe this, whether it is multiple financial transactions per second, thousands of emails per day or a million hours of video content in YouTube. This brings about a good amount of new challenges (more…)

February 13, 2018

Blockchain – Part 3 – Smart Contracts

In this final post in our three part series on Blockchain, we discuss an important idea in this space, smart contracts. This featured heavily at recent Blockchain Summits and similar conferences, and is a topic of great interest and research. (more…)

January 29, 2018

Developing Secure Systems

Sinara has been developing leading financial solutions for over 25 years, and throughout that time, the need to develop secure systems has been a constant.

January 10, 2018

Blockchain – Part 2 – Applications

This is the second in a three part series on blockchain, focusing on some of its potential applications. Of course, it’s impossible to talk about this subject without mentioning the original: Bitcoin. However, there is plenty written about this on the Internet so suffice to say that this is a digital currency (more…)

October 24, 2017

Unit Testing Private Methods Within a Class

This article is part of a series on software testing that will be expanded and updated over time. Software testing is a wide and varied subject, so we will aim to draw attention to certain topics of interest in a number of areas. This entry considers the unit testing of private methods within a class. Many (more…)

October 18, 2017

Blockchain – Part 1 – Technology Overview

In recent years, two of the major drivers of change in the financial industry have been regulation and technology, and it is likely that this will continue for some time. There is one technology in particular that has been generating much interest (both to participants and regulators), active research and product development; a technology (more…)

May 11, 2017

MiFID II Master Reference Data System

The upcoming MiFID/MiFIR II regulations and directives being developed by ESMA, the financial regulator of the European Union, are the subject of much discussion within the financial industry. Technology companies working within this space, including Sinara, will also be examining the implications for their clients and how the products and services they offer can (more…)

February 15, 2016

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Sinara celebrates 30th Anniversary in 2019

SignalR Coding Best Practices – Revisited

Using LINQ for Data Access

Machine Learning

Blockchain – Part 3 – Smart Contracts

Developing Secure Systems

Blockchain – Part 2 – Applications

Unit Testing Private Methods Within a Class

Blockchain – Part 1 – Technology Overview

MiFID II Master Reference Data System

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