2021-07-29 / misc / Sam
Content with recently solving bioinformatics, I have turned my attention to something much simpler and decided to build a stock exchange. This is actually an idea Tom and I had a few years ago while discussing interesting ideas for student group projects. Like many fun things during my PhD, it was left merely as an idea.
In a rare week off a few months ago, I felt inspired to adventure on some personal improvement and bought a bunch of books. I’ve been eager to apply the things I have been reading about from Clean Architecture, Architecture Patterns with Python (aka. “Cosmic Python”) and most recently, the “big boy”; Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
Turns out our five year old idea for establishing the Sam and Tom Stock Exchange seemed a good fit. We’re likely going to need some real domain modelling and research (because neither of us are users of such a system and not at all familiar with finance technology) and we think the idea will lend well to a service-orientated architecture, which is something I would like to try out. Most interestingly, by definition a stock exchange is a data intensive system, and will throw up some challenges for ensuring transactions are robust, services can scale, and are resilient to whatever we decide to throw at it.
Tom and I thought it would be good to kick off a development log. We’ll see if that turns out to be true.