Finance

FinOps Foundation’s “FinOps Certified Professional” Certification

I write to share my experience and reflections upon being the first students, and graduates (Jiri) of the FinOps Foundation’s FinOps Certified Professional certification program. Significance of the Cloud Costs Problem While only 5-15% of IT workloads have been moved…

Exploring Code of Hands-On Financial Trading w/ Python with DataSpell

JetBrains DataSpell is JetBrains new IntelliJ-based (the same engine as in JetBrains PyCharm) IDE for Jupyter Notebooks. The principal difference between PyCharm and DataSpell is the focus – PyCharm is an IDE for general Python development and DataSpell is an…

Jiri Pik’s New Book “Hands-On Financial Trading with Python”

I am very proud to announce the book “Hands-On Financial Trading with Python” written with Sourav Ghosh and published by Packt Publishing on April 29, 2021. The book is available for purchase at amazon.com and at packtpub.com. Front Cover Back…

Optimal DB Architecture for Fast Access to Historical FX Data in MySQL

The optimal database architecture depends on the structure of the data, the number of the records to be stored, their intended updates (if any), the typical queries and their frequency, and the database engine itself. Each database engine is optimized…
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