Best execution in the world of streams?

As the heat rises in global securities markets, blocks have melted into streams:  trades that were previously executed as one big block of shares are being broken up into a series of smaller trades and reported to a customer at an average price.  Among the most visible evidence of this trend are the precipitous drops [...]

Myths about Open Source

It’s funny – some can argue that open source software has been around since probably earlier than I was born. But even the definitive essay, Eric Raymond’s “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” was presented more than 10 years ago in 1997, and the myths surrounding open source still remain. Plenty of publications are working to [...]

My first 90 days at Marketcetera

It’s been about 90 days since I joined Marketcetera as VP of Engineering, and I’m having a great time. I previously worked at Yahoo!, where I dealt with a lot of problems with large scale, low-latency and high-throughput systems as director of engineering in the Search Marketing Group. I’m looking forward to applying my expertise [...]

0.5.0 and Windows Installer

Who said installing open-source software had to be difficult? We just shipped the 0.5.0 release, which contains an all-in-one installer for Windows. It makes installing and configuring the Marketcetera Platform a breeze, so it’s even easier to try out.

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