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Marketside chats #2: Options for non-dummies
This article will explain some common misconceptions about options, using some simplifications. (1) It is not applicable to typical startup call options. (2) A call option allows you to buy a stock at a specified strike price by a specified expiration date. For a put option, replace ‘buy’ with ‘sell’. An option can be thought… Read more
Building your street cred — A career forum for women in tech hosted by Wealthfront
You’re invited to join Wealthfront and Femgineer for an evening of professional connections, lessons on “street cred,” great presenters, and food. Lots of food. Wealthfront is proud to host October’s Femgineer forum on the topic of Street Cred on Tuesday, October 22nd at 6pm in Palo Alto, CA. Femgineer co-founder Karen Catlin will discuss “Street… Read more
Joining Wealthfront as a new college graduate
The First Day On my first day as a backend engineer at Wealthfront I received an overview of our architecture by one of our engineers. During the overview I realized I would be working with several technologies and flow patterns with which I was completely unfamiliar. Fortunately for me, Wealthfront was forward thinking in choosing… Read more
Functional CSS (FCSS)
We’re big fans of functional programming at Wealthfront. Emphasizing immutability and functional style means fewer “surprises” because side-effects are limited or nonexistent. We can quickly build up large systems from discrete, focused components by way of composition. Applying such principles is straight forward in most languages, even if they’re not functional by definition, but the… Read more
ActiveJsonEntity and ActiveRecord’s shared DNA
New to ActiveJsonEntity? Check out the introduction. As a new engineer at Wealthfront, I’ve been getting my hands dirty migrating our existing hand-written models to ActiveJsonEntity models. It’s been a tremendous way to get to know our existing codebase and appreciate the power of ActiveJsonEntity. Coming from a traditional Rails background, I wanted to make… Read more
ActiveJsonEntity: Bridging the gap between Rails and Java
We have a service-based architecture here at Wealthfront. Instead of our Rails layer talking to a database, it makes RPC calls over HTTP to a collection of services that send and receive JSON. Without a database we can’t use ActiveRecord, and all the niceties it provides. In their first incarnation, our models were plain Ruby… Read more