Scaling Flex for Enterprise Applications
A colleague presented at Skills Matter on the topic of Scaling Flex for Enterprise Applications. It’s interesting to see Caplin’s response to this presentation. I’m hoping we can see some performance numbers from Caplin Xaqua (Liberator) compared to LCDS, coupled with packet size comparisons, and functionality benefits of both systems, but I suspect given that the view will not be from an independent third party, the data will be irrelevant.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure Caplin Xaqua is right for some companies, but from where I sit in the Single Dealer Platform (SDP) world it’s in some case wrong. I think Caplin Xaqua is really all about re-branding, essentially the same jigsaw pieces are being sold – Liberator as the delivery mechanism, and Caplin Trader the platform.
I’m still not convinced about the benefits of Caplin StreamLink+, maybe Caplin will give me a demo sometime soon, and all we to see the API – and blog about it 
At the end of the day, whether you choose Caplin, LCDS, a real-time streaming service, or whatever you still have the cost of User Experience (UX) to build a sensible user interface, and the integration cost. That’s obviously assuming you have appropriate pricing engines, and trade servers etc that will perform and offer an appropriate level of reliability.
I think you may be misunderstanding the Xaqua proposition, Matt. Why not contact us and we can discuss it?
Hi Matt,
First, I think that comparing Flex with Comet is not entirely appropriate. With a pure javascript push sever you can stream data with any browser on all versions and without any installation. Flex needs installation and doesn’t work everywhere, e.g. iPhone.
Then, I can’t understand your comparison when talking about scalability. There are also other push servers in this field. For example our push sever – Migratory PushEngine – scales up to 500,000 users from a small server. Moreover, we added recently built-in horizontal scalability: one can split a large universe of symbols and distribute them with multiple PushEngine servers and then you can connect from the same web page with our Javascript api simultaneously to all the PushEngine instances in a native way (i.e. without using any iframe).
In this way, our extreme vertical scalability, enhanced with the built-in horizontal scalability, offers an inexpensive web streaming solution that meets any growth in terms of web clients and data volumes.
Cheers,
Mihai
Hi Matt
As much as I enjoyed Borre’s presentation, I was disappointed that the content was changed at the last minute. Do you by chance know why this happened? I know several of us that attended came specifically to learn more about the Matrix. Was it related to your disclosure agreement with Morgan Stanley or something?
Cheers
Graham
I recently attended a SkillMatter presentation by George Neill from Adobe’s Technology and Experience Innovation group, he leads the company’s Professional Services user experience team in Europe where a ‘large financial application’ was discussed, to my mind it sounded that Adobe had developed it.
It seems that everyone within the Adobe Flex space is laying claim to have touched the ‘large financial application’’ at some point.
Given the massive Adobe development team required on this project it’s not surprising, but it would be interesting to know what input Adobe sub-contractors had.