firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:02 am
If I sat an A level exam for VBA Coding I would be shown up as "staggeringly incompetent" but in no way would knowledge of VBA Coding be considered "staggeringly important"! The two are mutually exclusive.
If you're sitting an exam for it then it's obvioulsy important to you if not the wider world. That was my point. It's only important to the very few people affected by it and without knowing anything about how support is run, or priorities at the time, or what issues they might have with info feeds from 100s of venues nobody can say how they're doing.
firlandsfarm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 30, 2020 8:02 am
I was in the financial industry and had to conform initially with FSA 1986 and the evolution of compliance within that industry. If a stockbroker or other provided a service to the low standard Betfair does the Regulators would be down on them like a ton of bricks
Ditto, Financial IT 85-05. tbh the info processed and supplied by brokers and exchanges in financials is a piece of cake compared to what Betfair pull off on a daily basis. It's all centralised and shared for a start whereas Betfair are trying to do the whole process from having an agent at every sports event on the planet to processing 1000s of trades per millisecond with a latency of about 180ms. I'm not saying they're perfect but I don't see many people with first hand experience of writing or supporting a mutil-location realtime transaction processing system complaining much. It's f-kin difficult.