We’ve decided to bring back our data-oriented talks for another run, with some help from our friends. Please use the sign up form below if you would like to join us. The content for our previous webinars is available here. Vaex, Arrow, Parquet Thursday 11th March, 4pm GMT Vaex is an open source python library for analysing large on-disk datasets …
TorQ Installation Script
Background Historically, TorQ and its corresponding packages have had a method of installation that meant unzipping the packages and copying them on top of each other. That was an easy method, and is still fine for test or trial applications. For production applications we have tended to separate TorQ, the application that sits on top of it and the data …
TorQ TAQ – a NYSE TAQ Loader
The TorQ-TAQ Loader architecture is an extension to TorQ, which efficiently downloads TAQ files directly from the NYSE website. This blog explains the following: What is NYSE TAQ? The types of files which TorQ-TAQ supports A brief overview of each file type Goals which we hope to achieve with TorQ-TAQ TorQ-TAQ Architecture description TorQ-TAQ message flow Support and Custom Configuration …
AquaQuarantine kdb+ Tech Talk Content
The videos and slide decks from the AquaQuarantine kdb+ Tech Talks are below. kdb+ Security TorQ Overview Gateway Design Principles Grafana kdb+ 4.0 kdb+ in Containers MemVerge and kdb+ Optane TorQ Tickerplant kdb+ Security kdb+ can be configured to conform to current security standards. Jonny Press will talk about what these are and how it can be done including authentication, …
AquaQuarantine kdb+ Tech Talks Round 2
We gave some talks a few months ago which seem to have gone down well. We’ve decided to go again with a short series of 3, including a guest talk from Nick Psaris on his new book Fun Q. If you’d like to sign up for any of these sessions, please use the form below. If you have trouble accessing …
Belfast Bikes Traffic Shifts to a Different Gear
The Belfast Bikes public bicycle rental scheme, currently sponsored by Just Eat, has been running since April 2015. It has 47 stations and, according to the operator nextbike, “over 300 bikes”. However we only ever saw evidence of 221 bikes in operation. A previous blog post on this looked at leveraging TorQ for data collection from the Belfast Bikes network. …
AquaQuarantine kdb+ Tech Talks
These are some strange times. We hope everyone and their families are safe and well. On a positive note, it does provide a good opportunity to run some technical training sessions, which we’ve been doing internally for the last few weeks. We’ve decided to open these up publicly as everyone else is in the same “working from home” boat. We’ll …
kdb+ 3.6: anymap
The recent release of kdb+3.6 brought a new data structure: anymap. As database nerds, this is very exciting news for us. We thought we’d have a play with it to see how it could be used. New Nested Lists The anymap features replaces all the previous structures used to create nested lists. It also supports storing non-uniform values within the …