Why modern software is slow

Re:Why modern software is slow by GuB-42 on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:15AM (#33033428)

I don't know what you mean by "fintech" but from my experience, bank and other finance apps are usually not that great, neither are the websites. So maybe some parts of fintech are nice and clean, but the part that the end user faces, not so much.

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Re:Why modern software is slow by dahfizz on Friday September 30, 2022 @09:48AM (#33034803)

I mean the actual tech than enables financial markets (fintech) - high frequency trading, matching engines, market data, order execution, etc.

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Re:Why modern software is slow by xmcqdpt2 on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:45AM (#33033615)

Yeah I work in finance too and it's a mixed bag. The stuff I work on right now has a very high focus on correctness and stability which is nice.

But I've also seen productionized jupyter notebooks written by just out of school data scientists and 1000 lines long SQL queries that encoded important business logic and weren't version controlled.

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Re:Why modern software is slow by drdec on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:36AM (#33033552)

If I am not mistaken, fintech refers to the software/hardware surrounding trade execution on the various exchanges (stocks, bonds, commodities, etc.) where speed is of primary importance.

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