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Utilizing OAuth for Kafka Security

Stephen Humphreys, Director, is the Head of Product Engineering for Cachematrix within the Aladdin Product Group at BlackRock. Sam Russak, Analyst, is an engineer on the Cachematrix Product Engineering team within the Aladdin Product Group at BlackRock. OVERVIEW Cachematrix is a web-based liquidity management platform white-labeled by 25 large global banks and asset management companies. …

OCIBuilder: An Easy Button for Building OCI Container Images

Blog post describes a new open source project developed at BlackRock for simplifying building OCI container images.

MY JOURNEY FROM GIRLS WHO CODE TO BLACKROCK

Rebecca describes her journey from software development intern to full time coder at BlackRock and her involvement in Girls Who Code

Build Great PDFs on the Web Using SVG

Article describes an improved paradigm for generating print-ready PDF documents directly from standard web frontend code by leveraging SVG.

Application Scaling with Raft

Description of how one BlackRock team created a distributed application architecture using the raft consensus algorithm to shard requests

Teaching APIs With Girls Who Code

BlackRock's Chris Guthrie describes his volunteer experience teaching REST APIs with Girls Who Code along with code examples.

5 Common Mistakes with Keys in React

Article about common mistakes developers make when working with keys in React and best practices for properly using and thinking about keys.

Reactive Workflows in a Cloud-Native World

Article about Argo Events, a new open source project from BlackRock. It is a container native event framework for Kubernetes.

UX Design in Enterprise Fintech: Why It’s Hard, Why It Matters

Article on User Experience Design (UX) in Enterprise Fintech: why it's hard and why it matters, with examples from BlackRock.

The BlackRock Black Rock

BlackRock Black Rock is a Hackathon project with Raspberry Pi - a 3D black rock which delivers BlackRock content from the BlackRock Blog posts.

3 “Hacks” That Could Change the World

3 Hacks that could change the world - BlackRock’s Chief Engineer, Jody Kochansky, shares his views from PennApps XVI.

The BlackRock Messaging System

BMS: The Blackrock Messaging System - A blog article about how we’ve implemented and scaled the architecture that powers Aladdin.

Transitioning BlackRock’s Aladdin to a Cloud Architecture

Abigail Ye joined BlackRock in 2013 and is now leading the orchestration system in BlackRock’s Aladdin Product Group. Ms. Ye has more than 6 years’ experience working on distributed systems, with a passion for improving scalability, reliability and flexibility. At present, she is working on re-architecting Aladdin for a transition to a cloud centric architecture …

How BlackHat influenced my interest in Red Teaming

Every year thousands of cyber security professionals and hackers gather together in one place, Las Vegas. The events in question are the BlackHat, BSidesLV and DEF CON conferences. If you who haven’t been to a “hacker” conference, picture tens of thousands of hacking enthusiasts, taking over the Las Vegas strip (and some of its computers!), …

Enterprise Blockchain Meetup

SPEAKER BIO George Kouzmov George Kouzmov is a full stack developer in Portfolio Management Tools – Investment Risk team within the Aladdin Product Group. This team builds risk management products including firm-wide exposure & exception management tools across Issuer, Country, Counterparty, Liquidity, Enterprise and Investment risk classes.  He is a part of the blockchain working …