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Simple charting in R…

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R is a popular choice in some circles, and we’ve had several requests for examples on using R with Xignite web services. Personally, I have not used R before but this was surprisingly easy to do with just a little research. I’ll give you the code and then a brief ...

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New Account Dashboard…

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August 27, 2014 | By: achang | Featured, Tech Hello there! We recently rolled out a new account dashboard for our customers which we hope you will like. A couple of the most common questions we get here at Xignite are issues that can be boiled down to usage and ...

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Using Pingdom for Basic Third Party Monitoring…

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Pingdom essentially performs basic health checks of public facing end points. At Xignite, we’ve been a long time user of Pingdom- since 2009. As mentioned previously, we’ve spent years building a highly Xignite specific monitoring system, so why also use Pingdom? There are a few reasons in doing so: Gives ...

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AWS Issue…

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On October 1, 2014 at 3:31 AM Pacific time I was awoken for a series of Pingdom alerts that were escalated to me via PagerDuty from our Shanghai operations team, including: Hello Matt Purkeypile, You are assigned 1 triggered incident in PagerDuty: Please visit the following URL to manage this ...

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Fintech Fast Forward…

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2014 was the year fintech finally came out from behind the woodpile after a long hiatus that started with the credit crisis of 2008. With fintech fundraising topping at more than $1B in October—an all-time record, the sky now appears to be the limit—at least until a drastic market correction ...

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What’s Fueling the Fintech Fire?…

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The scene occurs at a San Francisco coffee bar in late 2014. She asks, “And what do you do during the day?” He calmly says, while tucking his plaid shirt in and rubbing his fully-grown beard, “I work in a fintech startup.” “Me too,” she replies giggling. “Are you in ...

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Consuming data: comparing FTP and web services…

At Xignite we consume data through a wide variety of formats, such as FTP and web services, and we run tens of thousands of checks against our own services. Let’s look at the differences in consuming data through FTP and web services. When consuming data through FTP you have to: Log into the ...

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