William Dealtry
William Dealtry has been working in both Python and C++ for many years, and has been a member of the C++ standardization committee for more than a decade. Currently he is the Architect of a new open-source Dataframe database, ArcticDB, which is backed by long-time Python enthusiasts Man Group and Bloomberg.
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At Man Group we ingest data of all shapes and sizes, from market prices to weather, ESG reporting to news media. Storing that data in a format that is useful both to researchers and to strategies trading more than a billion dollars is a unique technical challenge - on that has resulted in two iterations of our high-performance data storage product ArcticDB. The aim is nothing less than to bring the performance and analytical capabilities of a server infrastructure right into the Python client. With the client now available on Conda and PyPI. and the source published on GitHub, I want to take you on a tour of our database; the design rationale, the ups and downs of developing a new database while supporting a billion-dollar trading estate, and the lessons we've learned along the way.