Building a news aggregator module for a trading platform –The architecture

In my recent post introducing the news aggregator I detailed what we are currently building. In this post, I will discuss some very high level architecture and some considerations around how to build the application. My first draft at architecture is to just get the different functional parts of the program identified. Then later we [...]

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Building a news aggregator module for a trading platform -Introduction

I am working on a project where I going to build a news aggregator which takes certain keywords and searches a predefined set of websites, company statements etc for stories or blog posts that have that keyword in it. The keywords are mostly a combination of company names or stock ticker codes and mood indicators, [...]

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The trouble with Agile

Starting anything with an apology is never a good way to start; however, I must do this in advance. This post is not wholly about the problem with Agile, but a problem with people. Since people are unlikely to change in the short term and Agile is supposed to a flexible system which bends around [...]

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