Preface
I’ve been in technology, often in coding roles, for about 30 years. During the dot-com era, I created an institutional equities trading platform that turned into a broker-dealer transacting somewhere around a billion US dollars a day. Needless to say, making sure the technology ran smoothly was a constant concern.
At that company we created technology bits in the line of trading with C++. Building the web-based frontend bits required some JavaScript. When we turned our hands to creating the internal monitoring and support systems, Active Server Pages, and, later, C# were the easiest tools to use. As much as possible, we wanted the language-based systems to interact, rather than have to reinvent bits from one language to the other ourselves. ...
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