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I initially thought that the subject of the email (Stockfighter Announcement) was some sort of auto-correct fail. This makes much more sense after reading it in
by jsingleton 11y ago
I initially thought that the subject of the email (Stockfighter Announcement) was some sort of auto-correct fail. This makes much more sense after reading it in full!
Pretty excited about this as I was on a team that built a trading system (won't say which one but it was a big one) and my education is in electronics. It will be refreshing to deal with a (fake) trading system that uses "JSON/REST" as most of the real ones use proprietary binary protocols or something even worse like FIX!
- patio11 11y agoOh don't worry, we'll get people's hands dirty with FIX, too, but making things accessible to web developers in their usual toolchains seemed like a good call for Chapter 1. Especially since I had never personally worked with FIX before and we had a slightly aggressive timeline.
- jsingleton 11y agoI feel sorry for you having to use it. Especially the XML version. Stay strong! Fun fact, the SOH delimiter character renders as a smiley face in some terminals. Some of the proprietary protocols are fixed width which makes them so much simpler to parse than FIX.
- tptacek 11y agoFun fact: there are virtually no libraries or frameworks that recognize SOH is a radioactive metacharacter. Hm, maybe shouldn't have given that one away. Oh well, people will forget before we launch.