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 ...
Read More »New Account Dashboard…
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 ...
Read More »Using Pingdom for Basic Third Party Monitoring…
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 ...
Read More »AWS Issue…
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 ...
Read More »Watch Me Build a Stock Price App in Under 7 Minutes…
March 11, 2015 | By: Anand Viswanathan | Business and News Xignite stock price app built live on stage at Finovate Europe in under 7 minutes. __________ For more info on how Xignite’s market data cloud can improve your business processes, request a consultation with one of our ...
Read More »Silicon Alley and Silicon Valley Jostle for the Fintech Crown…
Last year fintech rose from the ashes of the mortgage crisis to the pinnacle of startup hype, with companies such Wealthfront, Personal Capital, Betterment, Robinhood and Motif Investing raising troves of capital. We expect this trend to continue in 2015 and beyond. The bulk of the fintech activity has so ...
Read More »3 Little Things You Should Know When Starting a Fintech Company…
2014 was a big year for financial technology. It was the year that “fintech” became a buzzword as popular as “big data” and “mobile.” It was the year that venture capital and private equity poured billions of dollars into the financial services industry. It was the year that finance gained ...
Read More »Fintech Fast Forward…
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 ...
Read More »What’s Fueling the Fintech Fire?…
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 ...
Read More »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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