breenhead

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   by breenhead 8y ago

   Doing analytics on streaming packet capture data. Probably not as unusual as the red bull f1 racing team using it for wind tunnel analytics.
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   by breenhead 8y ago

   Speaking as a kdb programmer in finance (although for an unusual use case), most big (and some small) banks have an Enterprise license and have one or more teams that maintain a market data store and/or an order reporting/reconcil
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   by breenhead 8y ago

   For anyone interested in apl, take a look at k which is essentially apl restricted to the ascii character set. There's also q (aka kdb) which adds some additional database-like functionality (among other things) however it's propr