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]

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gollark: OnStat would show just how reliable it is, except it seems to be down.
gollark: osmarks.net is *not* down, so it's more reliable than Facebook.
gollark: MANY facebook engineers have probably been paged and are probably rapidly quashing the broken firmware update or scheduler malfunction or 27 imploded network switches which broke.
gollark: That would be wonderful, but they're probably too resilient for that.

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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