Platformability

Single Dealer Platforms, Industry Expertise

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

Pass the Remote – Hack Day 2021

Module Federation is a new feature in webpack 5 that allows you to pull dependencies from external sources. Correctly configured, those imports can be dynamic, shared between multiple apps, and pull in any kind of module (utility, component or feature). What’s ...Read More

Jam London 2019

A few weeks ago, some of us at Caplin went to Jam London 2019. The location was Hawker House just around the corner from Canada Water, a cool venue very different from the typical dull conference halls we ...Read More

Professional Services: Negotiation course

The Professional Services team recently undertook a three day negotiation course that focused on cooperative negotiations (where both parties are inclined to reach a mutually beneficial deal) rather than competitive negotiations ('my way or the highway'). Whilst everyone ...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

Hack Day 2019: Jenny the Support bot

The theme for Hackday XI was 'Talking with Robosaurs' - a focus on artificial intelligence and communication. We created a team from our crack Support desk squad- Toby Catlin, Tom Brook and Andy Fernandes. ...Read More