Platformability

From 3 January 2018, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) introduces new requirements for the granularity of transaction-event time-stamps. This means that under certain circumstances an application will ...Read More

Just like last year, this October Caplin attended JAX London - the 'Conference for Java & Software Innovation'. JAX 2017 at the Business Design Centre in Angel, LondonThe main theme of ...Read More

A monolithic repository is a giant repository that holds multiple projects. The move towards monolithic repositories has been popularised over the past couple of years by tech giants Facebook and Google, stating advantages such as simplified dependency management and improved code ...Read More

Recently in Caplin we had a dev week. It was an opportunity for developers to collaborate on mini projects to trial and demo new technologies. On the eve of the Caplin Trader 5 release, which embraces new JavaScript technologies and the ...Read More

The Caplin Integration Team has recently started creating our latest set of adapters used for internal testing and demos. For this version of our mock adapters we opted to go with Kotlin as our primary language. This has ...Read More

At Caplin, we have been trying to improve the lives of the developers by giving them easier access to CI configuration. We have recently moved from having multiple CI servers to having a single, well-administered Jenkins server. ...Read More

This article expects that the reader knows the concepts of containers, Liberator and how Liberator serves container subscriptions. Checkout this for more information. In brief, a container object holds a list of record names, which are considered ...Read More

It is quite common in the Caplin Integration Team to write Proof of Concepts (POC) where we usually write adapter code that we integrate with new systems. For my ...Read More

For Caplin Dev Week in July this year I ran a proof-of-concept migration of our developer website to a static-site generator. Over the past year I have developed an interest in the ‘Docs Like Code’ approach to technical ...Read More

Sometimes you need to convey a lot of complex information in a easily digestible manner. Something that gives an indication of state without getting bogged down in the nitty gritty.  The FTSE 100 is a good example of this. A single ...Read More