Abby Gruen·Oct 7Steve Wirts: A Pioneer in building User Interfaces for kdb+/qSteve Wirts at a KX Meetup at J.P. Morgan in New York City in 2019 with Dave Thomas, a key figure in the commercialization of Smalltalk.A response icon1
Marcus Aprelius Antoninus·Sep 10VS Code-compatible extension for browsing crypto files/vaultsTired of using different command-line tools for different crypto files and password databases, I built a VS Code extension to keep…
InKX SystemsbyFerenc Bodon, PhD·May 15Variadic functions in qVariadic functions — those that accept a variable number of arguments — are among the most underutilized features in q. This is largely due…
Abby Gruen·Apr 22From Pedal Steel to Petabytes: Ed Bierly’s Unlikely Path Through APL, k, and kdb+This article is based on an interview with Ed Bierly, a musician, naturalist and computer programmer based in Morristown, N.J. who was an…
InKX SystemsbyNick Sansone·Apr 16Introducing KDB-X GPU AccelerationIf you’ve been running high volume market data pipelines, you already know the story: as-of joins and end-of-day sorts are among the most…