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FIX Protocol : Pros and Cons

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020Studio-Scala, Trade, tradingadvantages, beginners, cons, disadvantages, FIX, Introduction, pros, protocol, singapore, Trading

Reading Time: 2 minutes FIX stands Financial Information Exchange. The protocol is a highly scalable electronic communication protocol to facilitate real time exchange of information related to financial market. It has become the standard method of pre-trade, trade and post-trade communication. Market participants including banks, hedge funds, prime brokers etc, utilise FIX for their own trading means all to connect directly to clients. It is a full-fledged liquidity provider.

Using Protocol Buffers in Scala

December 13, 2018Studio-Scalabuffer, google, protocol, scala, Serialization

Reading Time: 2 minutes What is Protocol Buffers? Protocol buffers are a flexible, efficient, automated mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages. Continue Reading

Consensus Algorithms in Blockchain

August 13, 2017September 12, 2018Studio-Scalaalgorthim, Blockchain, Byzantine, Consensus, proof, protocol, stake, work

Reading Time: 3 minutes When we talk about the blockchain, the first thing that came up in our mind is the security and the security because of the blockchain consensus algorithm. Those who know about the blockchain know that we keep the ledger transactions synchronized across the network to ensure that ledgers only update when the appropriate participants approve transactions and that when ledgers do update, they update with Continue Reading

Introduction to FIX protocol for Trading

July 27, 2017September 11, 2018Studio-ScalaAllocation, Fin Tech, FIX, Orders and Executions, protocol, Securities, Trading

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Financial Information eXchange(FIX) protocol is an electronic communications protocol initiated in 1992 for international real-time exchange of information related to the securities transactions and markets. It was initiated by a group of institutions interested in streamlining their trading processes. These firms believed that they, and the industry as a whole, could benefit from efficiencies derived through the creation of a standard for the electronic Continue Reading

Scala-IOT : What is Mqtt ? How it is lightweight ?

August 7, 2016August 7, 2016Akka, akka-http, IOT, Studio-ScalaAkka, akka-mqtt, Architecture, Comparison, control packets, headers, http, https, IOT, Knoldus, mqtt, networking, profiling, protocol, scala

Reading Time: 4 minutes We have already stepped in the world of IOT ! And if you do find it fascinating then stay tuned to this series , or you can signup for our newsletter so you can directly get a message in your inbox whenever it is published ! So we established our basic understanding in our last blog post of what is IOT and how it is Continue Reading