Forecast Cloudy
The technology marketing hype-machinery has been in full swing for a while now and every company from small mom & pop shop to Fortune 500 corporation is trying to figure […]
Celebrating Open Source Successes
2014 was a fantastic year for the Valuation Services team as we rolled out a ton of technology including ~40 micro services written in Java and Scala, and effectively built-out […]
Follow the Leader
Good leadership is fundamental to the success of any organization. But what makes a good CTO, Head of Technology, or VP of Engineering and how do you choose the right […]
The Great Divide
Banks are filled with highly qualified technical talent. Financial Services firms spend a significant amount of money on Technology and have been doing so for a very long time. Why […]
Virtual Reality
I’ve always been a big fan of VMWare workstation. It allows me to test any product/project on any OS right on my own workstation. For about a four year stretch […]
The Alternative Technology Matrix
After “Building an Investment Bank’s Technology from the Ground Up” the question I got asked the most was: “How much did that cost?”. The traditional approach to building trading systems […]
Building An Investment Bank’s Technology From the Ground Up
In early 2013 the <bank that I work for>‘s technology and application infrastructure was at a crossroads. The bank had avoided many of the mortgage related business mis-steps of it’s […]
