Using a battery for intraday trading as a hedging strategy At the end of 2023, traders from Essent’s Energy Markets department came up with the idea to investigate the potential of using a battery for automated trading on the intraday market as a hedging strategy. The...

In this article, we dive deep into how we can harness parallel computing—specifically MPI—to scale the Discrete Fourier Transform algorithm from a single-core, “serial” version all the way to runs on the ARCHER2 supercomputer. Along the way, I explore the nuances of...

In Stackoverflows May 2023 survey, Rust was the most admired programming language.Also, in last Novembers results of Octoverse, the state of open source and ai, we see a tremendousgrowth of Rust. Over the last few years we have also noticed that Rust in Python is...

In this article I will walk you through the processing of some Dutch COVID-19 data using Google Dataflow and Apache Beam via Spotify’s Scio Scala library and a dash of Twitter’s Algebird. (Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes) Why this combo? Because I wanted to learn...

In a streaming data processing system, we frequently have to deal with: a varying load of incoming events calls to external APIs over the network to process those events The same situation applies to microservice architectures, where services make use of each other...