June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
39 pages
50m
English
Content preview from Data Infrastructure for Next-Gen Finance
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Chapter 1. Cloud Migration: From Data Center to Hadoop in the Cloud
How do you move a large portfolio of more than 400 batch analytical programs from a proprietary database appliance architecture to the Hadoop ecosystem in the cloud?
During a session at Strata + Hadoop World New York 2015, Jaipaul Agonus, the technology director in the market regulation department of FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority) described this real-world case study of how one organization used Hive, Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) to move a surveillance application to the cloud. This application consists of hundreds of thousands of lines of code and processes 30 billion or more transactions every day.
FINRA is often called “Wall Street’s watch dogs.” It is an independent, not-for-profit organization authorized by Congress to protect United States investors by ensuring that the securities industry operates fairly and honestly through effective and efficient regulation. FINRA’s goal is to maintain the integrity of the market by governing the activities of every broker doing business in the US. That’s more than 3,940 securities firms with approximately 641,000 brokers.
How does it do it? It runs surveillance algorithms on approximately 75 billion transactions daily to identify violation activities such as market manipulation, compliance breaches, and insider trading. In 2015, FINRA expelled 31 firms, suspended 736 brokers, barred ...
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