Aladdin (BlackRock)

Aladdin (Asset, Liability, Debt and Derivative Investment Network)[1] is an electronic system by BlackRock Solutions, the risk management division of the largest investment management corporation, BlackRock, Inc. In 2013, it handled about $11 trillion in assets (including BlackRock's $4.1 trillion assets), which was about 7% of the world's financial assets, and kept track of about 30,000 investment portfolios.[2]

Adam Curtis's 2016 documentary HyperNormalisation cites the Aladdin system as an example of how modern technocrats attempt to manage the complications of the real world.

Technology

Aladdin uses the following technologies, Linux, Java, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, Zookeeper, Splunk, ELK Stack, Git, Apache, Nginx, Sybase ASE, Cognos, FIX, Swift, REST, AngularJS, TREP.

It is claimed that (some of) it was built using Julia,[3] It has also been reported that written originally in C++, Java and Perl.[4]

gollark: That's why my new moral system ignores all moral intuitions and says that you should kill everyone who disagrees with my new moral system.
gollark: Your model is wrong then.
gollark: So I can ethically murder future parents if I consider murdering children first! Cool.
gollark: If there are too many cats somewhere there will not be sufficient cat owners. Feral cats will [DATA EXPUNGED] anyway.
gollark: The marginal ∆cat may ultimately be 0.

See also

References
  1. "BlackRock: The $4.3 trillion force". Fortune. 7 July 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  2. "The monolith and the markets". economist.com. 7 December 2013. Retrieved 6 November 2015.
  3. BlackRock’s Julia-Powered Aladdin Platform Featured in New York Times
  4. At Blackrock, machines are rising over managers to pick stocks (nytimes.com) Y Combinator


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