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 …
TorQ-Crypto Released
Today we are excited to release our new TorQ-Crypto package! For those of you that have used TorQ, you will most likely be familiar with the TorQ Finance Starter Pack. TorQ-Crypto behaves in a similar manner to the starter pack and provides an example of how an application can be built and deployed on top of the TorQ framework. The …
AquaQ Analytics announces the creation of 123 jobs
AquaQ Analytics is delighted to announce plans to add 123 jobs to the company over the coming 2 years, thereby doubling the size of the company. This expansion is being achieved with the assistance of Invest Northern Ireland. The new jobs will be created across the company’s consultancy streams and its growing product development stream. The current consultancy streams extend …
Simple Kdb+ Feed Interface Design
Many people choose to connect directly from a kdb+ instance to a data source such as Activ Financial or Bloomberg via the kdb+ C api. In this discussion we will create a dynamically loaded shared object within kdb+ and implement the following 3 design patterns: A single threaded application that reads data directly from the source onto the kdb+ main …
kdb+ in a Containerised solution
There has been a trend in recent years to move towards containerisation in software solutions. A containerised approach looks to package applications along with their dependencies for ease of deployment and improving scalability and resiliency. AquaQ has created a proof of concept which looks at leveraging containers, in conjunction with kdb+, to demonstrate the following capabilities: Use of kdb+ in …
AquaQ’s Online kdb+ Training and Enterprise Licence
AquaQ Analytics continues to offer comprehensive Online kdb+ Training written and delivered by kdb+ experts. This training is designed to improve your kdb+ knowledge as a novice user or to take your q programming to the next level. The online material for each course includes a series of instructional videos, downloadable slides, sample q code, and self-assessment questions. You can …
TorQ DQS
We are delighted to announce the release of the Data Quality System to TorQ, our kdb+ framework. The system allows developers to easily set up customizable checks on the quality of data within their database system. Motivation TorQ already has monitoring tools provided, but previously they were mainly used to monitor the health of individual processes. Checks would be performed …
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 …