How we build things is just as important as what we build. These articles let our engineers explain the “why” of what we do, and how we put the “tech” in “FinTech”.
To improve the solution I explored in the previous entry, we need to go deeper into our knowledge of Celery. Our goal is to change our tasks’ behavior so that, if the same type of task is currently being executed, the second task is marked as aborted (or similar) and not...
Continuing with our previous entry about how to daemonize with Celery. We left the solution in a state where our buffer could eventually collapse due to our producer generating tasks faster that our consumer could execute them. To solve this I propose another question: “Is foo_action_postsave task currently being...
Ebury uses the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol to facilitate many of our electronic trading trends. FIX has become the language of global financial markets and is used extensively by banking trading platforms. This non-proprietary, free and open standard is constantly being developed to support evolving business and regulatory needs,...
One of the things almost any web application in the world has to implement is a way to display notifications. Global notifications allow to users to know what is happening while they’re using an application, which is particularly helpful after performing an action (did the action end successfully or did something...
We’re used to working with python so the examples I’ll use will be either pure python or python-based pseudocode. Python has a really simple and elegant syntax so it’s almost understandable for people who don’t know the language. I’m going to explore a common problem in the backend of all...
