Enabling a modern hybrid cloud kdb+ stack with PubSub+

Things used to be much simpler just a few years ago when you had all your applications deployed in your on-prem datacenter. Sure, you had to manage all that yourself, but it was easy to deploy your applications on your finite number of servers. Things are much different now. Cloud computing has really taken off …

Publishing and Consuming messages from PubSub+ in a q/kdb+ stats process

Note: You can now subscribe to my blog updates here to receive latest updates. This post is the second post in a series of posts I have written as part of a data analytics pipeline spanning multiple languages, databases, and environments. You can find more about the pipeline in my final post here. A typical kdb+ architecture …

Bringing the power of pub/sub messaging to kdb+

Note: You can now subscribe to my blog updates here to receive latest updates. A typical kdb+ architecture (in a market data environment) is composed of multiple q processes sharing data with each other. These processes usually are: feed handlers, ticker plants, real-time subscribers (rdbs, pdbs, bars etc), historical databases (hdbs) and gateways. Here is what the …