2021-11-08 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes

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Date

Monday, November 8th, 2021 - 9:30am ET / 2:30pm UK

// Second Monday of every month

Attendees

Fullname	Affiliation	GitHub Username
Aitana Myohl	FINOS	@agitana
Peter Gyorok	Morgan Stanley	@gyorokpeter
Alvin Shih	Morgan Stanley	@alvin-c-shih
Ryan McFarland	Citi	@ryanmcfarland
Gary Davies	AquaQ Analytics	@drgdavies
Dmitry Zakharov	Deutsche Bank	@dzmipt
Jane Gavronsky	FINOS	@jgavronsky
Aaron Davies	Morgan Stanley	@adavies42

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Agenda

(5 min) Convene, roll call, welcome new people.
[x] Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
[x] Review Meeting Notices (see above)
(5 min) Approve previous meeting minutes.
- Approved by acclamation.
(10 min) C4 PlantUML Intro.
- https://github.com/plantuml-stdlib/C4-PlantUML
- Limited interest by attendees since SecArch requires architecture diagrams in a different diagramming tool.
- yEd is a free tool for small diagrams.
(10 min) Kdb Studio (FINOS / dzmipt) updates?
- dzmipt fork has PoC of replacing NetBeans editor with RSyntaxTextArea.
- Major code changes.
- BSD 3-Clause license
  - License should be compatible with Apache 2.0 license for FINOS.
  - Will run it by FINOS to be sure.
  - Someone to check that RSyntaxTextArea passes onboarding / source code scanning at work.
- Some investigation for building dzmipt fork under FINOS has taken place.
- Estimate of effort to port FINOS fork features to dsmipt fork not far along.
- Style checking on FINOS fork to ensure consistency / friendlier diffs.
(5 min) Volunteer to factor out .finos.log stubs into log/ and load them from qclone and other modules?
- https://github.com/finos/kdb/blob/6b4c056b6313439e2de13456ff5d9ca488f27037/q/qclone/test_qclone.q
- Callers agreed that plain text logging would be fine. No real push for structured logging.
- AquaQ TorQ logs in plain text.
- Someone will create a new logger module and take out the stubs in other modules when time permits.
(5 min) Any kdb crossovers with Open RegTech or other ML?
- Callers didn't have any crossover opportunities to suggest.
(10 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn.
- One caller said he'd try to find time to look more carefully at the FINOS module loader.
- If there's good uptake, we could start looking at sharable C++-based plugins.
- Seems feasible to distribute using Anaconda.
- PyPi supports many Linux versions.
- Cloud-related topics:
- Current benchmarking more about storage / network speed rather than kdb+ itself.
- Banks mainly checking the largest of the cloud providers.