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Chronicle Software
Company blog · chronicle.software/insights/blogsprogrammingsystems
Chronicle Software is the company blog at chronicle.software, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Chronicle as the rebranded OpenHFT, a JVM library for high-throughput event queues popular in finance. Its links point to product pages such as Chronicle Queue, not essays.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chronicle Software is a low-latency trading software provider of enabling technology for trading systems.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-04-27
- /products/chronicle-queue/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-08
What Hacker News says?
OpenHFT is actually known as "Chronicle" now. Chronicle used to refer to a specific library under the OpenHFT umbrella, but a few years ago it was all rebranded to be Chronicle. https://chronicle.software/
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on “Ask HN: What programming skills are required by HFT or Trading firms”Submitted Java: Why Core-to-Core Latency Matters as a story · 25 points
HN discussionFrankly this strikes me as really hacky. A million operations a second isn't even that much. Something like Chronicle [1] can do million s of atomic operations a second. A cluster of 10 nodes for what are basic in-memory counters? And the wackiness of Lua scripts to read from the cache? It all seems a bit much. I've solved similar problems in the trading space (processing raw market data feeds) with much less. It's…
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on “Scaling a High-Traffic Rate Limiting Stack with Redis Cluster”Submitted Why low-latency Java still requires discipline? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAlso take a look at: http://chronicle.software/products/chronicle-queue/
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on “Disruptor: High performance alternative to bounded queues (2011) [pdf]”Submitted Tuning Java Applications for Low Latency on Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHey! Congrats on shipping. Just FYI - There's a pretty popular (in finance circles) JVM library called Chronicle[0], which also deals with high throughput event queues etc. [0]: https://chronicle.software/
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on “Chronicle – Idiomatic, type safe event sourcing framework for Go”Definitely seems like something to replace leveldb with vs kafka. Or maybe more akin to http://chronicle.software/products/chronicle-queue/ minus the TCP replication
Comment linking /products/chronicle-queue/
on “Show HN: KafkaLite – A simple message broker inspired by Kafka”
