Engineering

Python and Jupyter – a 21st century data stack for business users, not just IT!

In this latest blog, Stephen LeMasney, Sales Engineer, shares his insights into how Python and Jupyter can be integrated within a 21st century data stack to drive efficiency and form a compelling tool for business users who want to learn new data skills.

Finbourne LogoStephen LeMasney20/07/2022

Investment Technology

The Mysterious Hanging Client & TCP Keep Alives

This blog looks at the solution we implemented to fix an issue with the Python SDK which was very difficult to pinpoint.

Finbourne LogoMichael McGarry07/05/2020

You should work from home unless it is impossible for you to do so

A couple of weeks ago, many companies across the country were faced with the challenge of having to transition their whole workforce to remote working overnight

Finbourne LogoFINBOURNE06/04/2020

Investment Technology

Plotting the future of hedge fund technology

This week, I spoke on a panel at the HFM European Technology Summit about the future of hedge fund technology. Here are my thoughts following the panel.

Finbourne LogoThomas McHugh11/02/2020

Engineering

What a Naval Historian Can Teach Us About Data

Everyone knows that data is important, but do we really appreciate how important access to correct data is for the successful execution of an investment strategy?

Finbourne LogoFINBOURNE08/03/2018

Engineering

What is bitemporal data anyway?

Bitemporal data is a fundamental principle in our LUSID platform, yet the term is not very common amongst technologists nor business users. It can be a complex concept to describe, and I’ve been thinking of a simple example to help illustrate it…

Finbourne LogoFINBOURNE28/02/2018

Engineering

Authenticating S3 Proxy

Using nginx and oauth2_proxy to deliver S3 based content (and azure blob store)

Finbourne LogoFINBOURNE01/03/2017

Engineering

Identity Providers

Having spent the last 15 years cossetted in the big corporate world blissfully unaware of just how complex managing Identity and access control actually is, I can best describe my journey of the last month as enlightening. Emboldened by our mission and with the idea that we were, through the advent of cloud technologies, free from having to worry about such tedious things as user management, we embarked on our righteous path.

Finbourne LogoThomas McHugh17/12/2016

Engineering

Azure and our approach to naming things

Azure currently has some pretty interesting rules and restrictions around how things can be named. At times they seem arbitrary, but none-the-less, it’s what we have to work with.

Finbourne LogoFINBOURNE17/12/2016