Aaron Davies

Morgan Stanley

adavies42

Alvin Shih

Morgan Stanley

alvin-c-shih

Jonny Press

AquaQ Analytics

jonnypress

Peter Gyorok

Morgan Stanley

gyorokpeter

Rob Underwood

FINOS

brooklynrob

Kamal Dodiya

European Biometrics Institute

Gary Davies

AquaQ Analytics

drgdavies

Alok Dutt

Citi

5 min

Convene & roll call.

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5 min

Review and approve minutes from last meeting.

All

• Minutes approved by acclamation.

5 min

GitHub FYI

• https://github.community/t5/How-to-use-Git-and-GitHub/push-declined-due-to-email-privacy-restrictions/m-p/42967#M10006

All

• Rob will check with Maoo on whether this is FINOS-specific or GitHub-wide.

5 min

AquaQ now has CCLA in place for TorQ!

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• Best to coordinate with Maoo for next steps.
  
  

  • Knows how one might move TorQ under the FINOS GitHub area.

  • Also see if any of the CI / CD, code scanning, license scanning is applicable to kdb/q.

15 min

Look over pull request:

• .finos.query.ungroup[...]

• https://github.com/finos/kdb/pull/19

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• Comments already on the PR!

• Aaron has a similar utility in his GitHub.

• Table column renamer might be easy but useful.

  • One idiom is: x xcol x xcols y

  • However, one which doesn't change column ordering would have wider appeal.

  • 3.6 2018.08.24 release of q supports passing a dictionary.

10 min

Look over some adavies42 utilities for prioritization.

• https://github.com/adavies42/qist

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• Utility which allows q to be used in a UNIX pipeline sparked some conversation.
  
  

  • UNIX text utilities don't support grouping that well.

  • Some potential use cases for log scraping / analysis.

5 min

Any new kdb needs arise as a result of COVID-19 related volatility?

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• Market data reaching multiples over quiet times.

• Tools to identify bottlenecks across kdb processes cooperating across multiple team boundaries?

  • AquaQ has a Grafana adapter!

    • https://www.aquaq.co.uk/q/aquaq-grafana-kdb-adapter/

    • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafana

  • Anyone with kdb+ on Google Cloud might find this TorQ article helpful:

    • https://www.aquaq.co.uk/q/torq-and-scaling-google-cloud/

5 min

AOB

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