Streaming Financial Data for the Largest Treasuries Trader in Real Time
The company provided its customers with access to up-to-date financial data in real time. Displaying relevant stock quotations at a corporate website in a secure way, the organization saved time and thousands of dollars on enabling an individual account for each of its customers.
Cooperating with HQSoftware, the company wanted to stream up-to-date data related to treasuries value on the market to a website, where it can be accessed by the customers in real time.
Technical challenge:
As the financial data to be streamed was highly sensitive, a sufficient level of security should be ensured.
It was crucial to enable the streaming of huge data volumes in real time.
Using the FIX protocol, data was transmitted in decimals, while the market standard was to display it in fractions.
Technologies used: PostgreSQL, Node.js, WordPress, FIX Parser