The FINOS Perspective Project - Interview With Andrew Stein of J.P. Morgan Chase

<p><strong>In this episode of the podcast, Tosha Ellison and Grizz Griswold (both of FINOS) interview Andrew Stein, Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase, and Lead Maintainer on the FINOS Perspective open source project. We discuss the project itself, its genesis, problems that Perspective solves for what users, and then pull in examples of what the project and the software can do. We also look at who should, and why they should get involved in consuming and contributing to the open source project.</strong></p> <p><strong>Andrew also gave a presentation and demo on "</strong><a href="https://www.finos.org/blog/us-open-source-in-fintech-meetup-31-march-21"><strong>How to Build an Order Book Simulation with Perspective</strong></a><strong>" last month - so check that out too: </strong><a href="https://www.finos.org/blog/us-open-source-in-fintech-meetup-31-march-21"><strong>https://www.finos.org/blog/us-open-source-in-fintech-meetup-31-march-21</strong></a></p> <h3><strong>BACKGROUND FOR THE FINOS PERSPECTIVE PROJECT</strong></h3> <p>Perspective is an&nbsp;interactive&nbsp;visualization component for&nbsp;large,&nbsp;real-time&nbsp;datasets. Originally developed for J.P. Morgan's trading business, Perspective makes it simple to build real-time &amp; user configurable analytics entirely in the browser, or in concert with Python and/or&nbsp;<a href="https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/"><strong>Jupyterlab</strong></a>. Use it to create reports, dashboards, notebooks and applications, with static data or streaming updates via&nbsp;<a href="https://arrow.apache.org/"><strong>Apache Arrow</strong></a>. As a library, Perspective provides both:</p> <ul> <li>A fast, memory efficient streaming query engine, written in C++ and compiled for both&nbsp;<a href="https://webassembly.org/"><strong>WebAssembly</strong></a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.python.org/"><strong>Python</strong></a>, with read/write/stream/virtual support for&nbsp;<a href="https://arrow.apache.org/"><strong>Apache Arrow</strong></a>.</li>