FAQ
Why absbox is a wrapper while Hastructure as engine ?
It’s just a huge burden to model structured products in a dynamic language like Python or Clojure. Haskell provides extream concise modelling language and high performance calculation engine.
Information leakage on Hastructure ?
If you send out run request to Hastructure, user may raise question whether other privacy information was sent to the engine as well. Eventhough not many people can read the Hastructure code, but:
it’s open-souce
it has been verified by a big-name company
Can I use my own engine ?
Yes, you can pull docker image and delpoy it in your own server.
Or just use the pre-built binary and run it in your own server.
Why using list/tuple/dict in absbox ?
It’s a Data-Driven oriented design, it’s easy to pull data from any database/local files with variant formats and build inputs for absbox easily.
Other packages like pandas or numpy, lenses works fairly well with native data types as well.
Why there is no UI ?
UI is always a huge topic , because it’s hard to satisfy everyone’s need. Risk Manger Quant Trader Structurer all have different requirements on UI to satisfy their own specific needs.
Even some magic happens there are 4 sets of UIs to be developed, the workflows accross differnet companies will create frictions as well.
absbox and Hastructure would focus on core functionalities and provide RESTful service to make it easy to integrate with any UIs.
Why commerial support ?
The absbox and Hastructure will remains free and open-source, while adopting it and using it in production, user may need some commerial support for the benefits below:
quick knowledge transfer
short integration time