@Alvin Shih

Morgan Stanley

alvin-c-shih

Aaron Davies

Morgan Stanley

adavies42

Peter Gyorok

Morgan Stanley

gyorokpeter

Andreas Markitanis

Barclays

Rob Underwood

FINOS

brooklynrob

5 min

Convene & roll call.

All

5 min

Review and approve minutes from last meeting.

All

• Minutes approved by acclamation.

5 min

Pull request for .finos.query.renameKeys[...] / .finos.query.renameCols[...]  submitted:

• https://github.com/finos/kdb/pull/23

All

• Request to update with support for keyed tables.

  • Will merge what's there and contributor will update when they face that use case.

10 min

Request for something resembling "Master Table Library" from Business Metrics.

• Allows load-balanced set of gateways to cache frequently-accessed results from the back end.

• Useful for making UI more responsive.

• Simple to create for a single process.

• Leader using async broadcast to followers is significantly more development effort.

All

• Existing implementation tied to BMET load balancer implementation.

  • All MS load balancer implementations have been langagaes other than q.  (Java / C++ / Erlang)

  • Previous meetings showed a reluctance to bring in non-q code (eg. Python).

  • -30!x "deferred response" feature from 3.6 opens the door to a pure-q load balancer.

  • See if one gets contributed.

10 min

Barclays involvement with FINOS?

All

• Currently not a member and has not signed CCLA.

• Discussions underway for participation with Alloy.

  • https://www.finos.org/alloy

20 min

Hard fork for "Studio for kdb+" created:

• https://github.com/finos/kdb-studio

Try to get the word out to those who've already hacked on it.

Volunteers to review / approve PRs?

Anybody interacted with the IntelliJ plugin maintainer?

• https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10894-kdb-studio

All

• Motion made to make Peter Gyorok and Aaron Davies provisional maintainers for Studio for kdb+ repository.

  • No one voted to oppose, so motion passed.

• Look into whether license / vulnerability scanning is already active.

• No recent NetBeans vulnerabilities according to:

  • https://www.cvedetails.com/product/34910/Oracle-Netbeans.html?vendor_id=93

• Focus will be on building the code and accepting pull requests.

• Look into the IntelliJ plugin variant later:

  • https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/10894-kdb-studio

10 min

RFC for more featureful q IPC protocol?

• Requirements for encrypted "data in motion"?  (Cloud.)

• Standard way for client to authenticate the server?

• Piggyback on some existing protocol?

All

• Existing protocol supports SSL:

  • https://code.kx.com/q/kb/ssl/

• Need to review TLS support:

  • https://code.kx.com/platform/tls/

• Protocol should support:

  • Reporting of connection denied vs. failed.

    • This ambiguity is confusing for load balancers.

  • Two-way handshake.

    • Negotiate strongest common encryption protocol.

    • Client given means to authenticate the server to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks.

• Morgan Stanley has compiled a wish list.

  • Will need some updating before publishing on FINOS GitHub.

5 min

Anyone played with QDoc?

• https://code.kx.com/developer/libraries/documentation-generator/

Gaining traction in your neck of the woods?

Retire finos/qdoc?

• https://github.com/finos/kdb/tree/master/qdoc

All

• No strong feelings about retiring finos/kdb/qdoc .

  • Leave it for now.

• Kx Analyst has been conveniently packaged within MS.

  • Will see how much uptake there is of Kx qDoc over time.

5 min

AOB

All

• Should check in with the AquaQ folks at some point.