Tag: infrastructure management
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Designing Risk Management Platforms: A Container-Level Overview
In today’s fast-paced markets, risk management systems are essential for institutions and individual traders alike. This post explores the architecture behind a Risk Management Platform, delving into the key components that interact to deliver a seamless experience for analysts, traders, and risk managers. We will focus on the container-level design of the platform, providing insight… Read more
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Payment Infrastructure Case: Medallion Architecture Enhancement
In the evolving landscape of payments, the need for robust, scalable, and efficient data processing frameworks is of top priority. With the rise of digital payments and the increasing complexity of transactions, traditional monolithic systems often struggle to keep pace. Enter Medallion Architecture—a modern data architecture designed to address the challenges of scalability, data quality,… Read more
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Reverse Engineering a Trading Platform: A System Design Analysis and Roadmap
In the competitive world of financial trading, platforms must be meticulously designed to handle massive data volumes, ensure real-time responsiveness, and maintain stringent security standards. This blog post will dissect a hypothetical trading platform by reverse engineering its architecture, components, and potential areas for improvement. By analyzing its structure, we’ll gain insights into how a… Read more
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Streamlining Reconciliation with Databricks: A Quick Guide
Today was an interesting process of settling gym membership fees through a legacy ERP system, as well as the constituent user stories / use case we were able to generate with LLM. As we approach mid-2024, further gap analysis has uncovered interesting reasons to move away from these systems in favour of solutions that confer… Read more
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Payment Infrastructure Case: SWIFT GPI Improvement and Annualized Cloud Cost Savings
In the realm of global payments, the efficient and transparent exchange of funds across borders is paramount. The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) has long been a cornerstone of this process, facilitating secure communication between institutions worldwide. With the introduction of the SWIFT Global Payment Innovation (GPI) initiative, a new era of cross-border… Read more
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New Terraform Configuration for Capital Markets Infrastructure Management
The morning’s prompt engineering session has been an interesting lesson in Data Operations based on stack intelligence with open stack data available within this landscape. Our case was developed around Akamai Technologies being used to manage services at RBC Capital Markets, a brownfield test-bed for idea generation that has largely been touted as a challenging… Read more