Smarter – Hackday 17

In engineering circles, you’ll sometimes hear stories of 10x or 100x developers who are incredibly more productive than average.  This doesn’t mesh well with my own experience.  There certainly can be significant differences in productivity between developers, but the biggest differences ...Read More

Reimagining Margin Administration – Summer Hack Day 2022

For this season's hack day our team, Jack Cusack, Harry Hornby and myself, decided to focus on reducing the complexity and improving the transparency of price administration of an FX trading system without reducing or restricting the functionality, and having any ...Read More

Hackday 2021 – The Silence of the Lambdas

In the cloud, nobody can hear you stream Since its inception over two years ago the Caplin Managed Services team has been responsible for building and maintaining Caplin’s SaaS cloud offerings. Our cloud infrastructure ...Read More

Hackday 2021 – Electroshock Therapy

This month, Caplin held its biannual hackday event. Developers got into teams of up to 3 and had 24 hours to produce something befitting this year's theme: Speed. Along with my colleague Andrew Voneshen we formed the team “Driving Miss ...Read More

Hackday – gRPC

Our streaming server Liberator serves financial data to browsers with low latency and high resilience.  We’ve used it for trading and pricing all kinds of assets in web based trading systems, and particularly for FX. However, this genericity means ...Read More

Hack Day 2019: WhatsApp trading and chat

Caplin held its 2019 hack day on the 8th of November. The theme was ‘Talking with Robosaurs’, and encouraged projects with a focus on AI, chat and messaging. Focusing on the messaging theme, Adam Iley, Andy Lyons, and Andy Voneshen grouped ...Read More