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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

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

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

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

This post describes experimental features within the Caplin Platform. It is highly probable that something similar will be implemented and made available in the not-so-distant future. Here at Caplin we’ve been thinking about how ...Read More

This was Julien's hackday project. This year, Caplin Hack Day's theme was titled 'Into the Unknown'. Basically, we were allowed to do anything as long as it was something new.So I did what everyone ...Read More

Permissioning and Entitlement is one of the most critical functions of any financial trading system. Ensuring that your clients are entitled to perform their required actions and denied from all other actions is important not only for security and convenience, but ...Read More

The theme for the hackday VII was "Simplify and Scale".My colleague Daniel Owen and I decided to produce something to simplify our lives as QAs at Caplin. Andy Berry was also on hand and kind enough to ...Read More

Twice a year Caplin developers, designers and business analysts have the opportunity to down tools on their projects and work on an idea or concept of their own during a 24 hour Hack Day. The theme for this Hack Day was ...Read More

Last Friday saw another 24-hour coding-fest at Caplin HQ. All engineering staff were asked to form teams for a start on Thursday lunchtime and build something cool to demo on Friday afternoon. For a number of people furiously working on their ...Read More