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Want to chime in to say it's awesome that Bloomberg is releasing this product to the world. I don't think many financial organizations would even consider relea

Want to chime in to say it's awesome that Bloomberg is releasing this product to the world. I don't think many financial organizations would even consider releasing anything as open source, even if it is as general purpose as this tool. My current one (HFT,MM) wouldn't go for it. It also shows good engineering practices. I'd venture a guess that they are probably one of the better ones in the space. Makes me want to work there! Maybe one day...

pjmlp 5y ago
They also release a couple other stuff, https://github.com/bloomberg https://github.com/bloomberg
francoacevedo 5y ago
apaprocki 5y ago
Well, today is one day... :) You didn't hint at the reason for saying that, but please don't hesitate to apply if you're at all interested.[1] It would make more sense to say "financial data organization", which then makes it a bit more obvious why we'd have a whole lot of employees (6,500+) in Engineering compared to a typical "financial organization" making money primarily by participating in the public/private markets. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/ https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/
sterlinm 5y ago
> I don't think many financial organizations would even consider releasing anything as open source, even if it is as general purpose as this tool. Not to discount how great it is that Bloomberg is contributing this to the community, but there are a lot of other interesting open source tools that have been open sourced by by finance firms. Pandas, for one, was originally developed internally at the hedge fund AQR.
- sterlinm 5y ago
  Some other interesting projects from financial services firms: https://perspective.finos.org/ https://perspective.finos.org/ (JP Morgan) https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table (JP Morgan) https://github.com/man-group/dtale https://github.com/man-group/dtale (Man Numeric) https://github.com/deshaw/pyflyby https://github.com/deshaw/pyflyby (DE Shaw)

pjmlp 5y ago

They also release a couple other stuff, https://github.com/bloomberg https://github.com/bloomberg

francoacevedo 5y ago

apaprocki 5y ago

Well, today is one day... :) You didn't hint at the reason for saying that, but please don't hesitate to apply if you're at all interested.[1] It would make more sense to say "financial data organization", which then makes it a bit more obvious why we'd have a whole lot of employees (6,500+) in Engineering compared to a typical "financial organization" making money primarily by participating in the public/private markets. [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/ https://www.bloomberg.com/company/what-we-do/

sterlinm 5y ago

> I don't think many financial organizations would even consider releasing anything as open source, even if it is as general purpose as this tool. Not to discount how great it is that Bloomberg is contributing this to the community, but there are a lot of other interesting open source tools that have been open sourced by by finance firms. Pandas, for one, was originally developed internally at the hedge fund AQR.

sterlinm 5y ago
Some other interesting projects from financial services firms: https://perspective.finos.org/ https://perspective.finos.org/ (JP Morgan) https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table https://github.com/jpmorganchase/regular-table (JP Morgan) https://github.com/man-group/dtale https://github.com/man-group/dtale (Man Numeric) https://github.com/deshaw/pyflyby https://github.com/deshaw/pyflyby (DE Shaw)