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Has cost replaced latency as the top priority for trading firms?

Use CasesMay 31, 2012

This week, NYSE Euronext announced that they are opening their US Liquidity datacenter in Mahwah, New Jersey to non-member companies for the first time. That means any third party can...

Controlling Information Flow with Topics

DevOpsMay 30, 2012

Approximating Queue Semantics in Non-Persistent Messaging

DevOpsMay 22, 2012

CONFIGURATION COOK-BOOK – Approximating Queue Semantics in a Publish and Subscribe Environment.

Solace product innovation — we’re writing our own rules

Products & TechnologyMay 22, 2012

Here at Solace, we are driven by some audacious goals. We're literally rewriting the rules on how information moves between all kinds of applications. It doesn't matter if it's two...

Why peer to peer is a flawed architecture for most messaging needs

Products & TechnologyMay 18, 2012

If you’ve spent any time architecting or implementing solutions that rely on messaging, you’re surely familiar with the concepts behind broker-based messaging. In a nutshell, message brokers centralize common networked...

Why I’m Hooked on Node.js

Products & TechnologyMay 15, 2012

Configuring “Pre-Fetch” for Optimized Load-Balancing

DevOpsMay 11, 2012

CONFIGURATION COOK-BOOK - Controlling Solace “Pre-Fetch” of Guaranteed Messages to Achieve Fair Load-balancing.

Messaging 101

Products & TechnologyMay 3, 2012

What is messaging? Instant messaging like MSN/IRC/Yahoo? SMS stuff? Email? Morse code? Even techies have different understandings of messaging depending on context, so I wasn’t too surprised when my banker...

Is the real-time web streaming data in the wrong direction?

Products & TechnologyApril 12, 2012

Examples of web streaming have become rather predictable and yawn-worthy. It’s always some variation of streaming real-time stock market data, news and status updates from the cloud to your browser,...

Recapping TEDx New Wall Street – re-imagining Financial Services

Financial ServicesMarch 12, 2012

Yesterday, I participated in TEDx New Wall Street in Mountain View, California. In the spirit of all TED events, this was a day of sharing ideas — specifically about re-imagining...

What the big banks can learn about cutting costs from Apple, Google and Facebook

Financial ServicesMarch 2, 2012

Apple does it, Facebook does it, Google does it. Why not Goldman, JP Morgan and UBS? No, I’m not talking about deploying open source software or embracing cloud computing whole...

Exchanges getting proactive about improving the impact of HFT on markets

Use CasesFebruary 29, 2012

Last week, I posted on how regulation has unintentionally led to increased high frequency trading across various asset classes. Today, we saw a different angle on the HFT debate, with...