Web Rush

Episode 149: Real Time Systems in the Real World with AG Grid

Episode Summary

Han and Prerak talk about their approach to developing storytelling tools for financial products, how they deliver real time event updates, using AI in their tech stack, updating and displaying large data sets, and what the benefits are of web workers.

Episode Notes

Recording date: 08/17/2021

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Han Dong @Promisedotall

Prerak Sanghvi @PrerakSanghvi

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• Narwhal

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Resources:

• Proof Trading Blog
• The Algorithmic Trading Platform
• Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys
• Fidelity Investments
• Proof Trading
• Mainframe Computer
• Web Socket API
• SSE - “Server-side Events”
• Redis
• AG Grid
• Web Workers
• Query by Example
• Perspective grid from FinOS
• Noun Project

Timejumps

• 01:18 Guest introduction
• 01:54 Flashboys
• 07:42 Storytelling tools for financial products
• 12:29 Sponsor: Narwhal
• 13:11 How do you deliver real time events?
• 19:00 How does AI intersect with your tech stack?
• 21:57 How do you display and update the vast data?
• 25:07 Where is the data sorted? Client or server?
• 29:41 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 30:45 What are the benefits of web workers
• 32:46 How do you set up the data for the grid?
• 40:31 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.