Finance Books of the Year – 2010

Drowning In Oil: BP & The Reckless Pursuit Of Profit

Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, The Fall of Merrill Lynch and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America

‘Dealings’ – The Work Of A Wall Street Legend

All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

Bought and Paid For – The Unholy Alliance Between Obama & Wall St

Banktown – The Rise and Struggles of Charlotte’s Big Banks

King Of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman & Blackstone

The Last of the Imperious Rich – Lehman Brothers, 1844-2008

‘Confidence Game: How a Hedge Fund Manager Called Wall Street’s Bluff’

‘The Rise and Fall Of Bear Stearns’

Goldman Sachs – ‘When Money Was In Fashion’

13 Bankers – The Wall Street Takeover & The Next Financial Meltdown

The Big Short – Inside The Doomsday Machine

The End Of Wall Street

‘No One Would Listen’

‘On The Brink’ – By Hank Paulson

Did you not get the memo?

Ray Ozzie – ex-Microsoft executive suggested how they should stay at the top about 5 years ago (2005) – how the technology world has changed since then.

The Internet Services Disruption
Dawn of a New Day

Memos like these change companies forever but takes an individual to plant the first seed.

Distributed Transactions in the Cloud

How to peform global serializability

Bloomberg Runs Bond Pricing on GPUs

 

Got data-centre issues when your clients cry out “more speed captain” – Bloomberg have found an innovative way to use what they have already…

Bloomberg Runs Bond Pricing on GPUs

AMQP Rabbit

I am currently looking into this for a project I am working on – and its looks very promising for an open source messaging.  There are some very good slides and articles on this subject.
Google Talk on RabbitMQ

In there is a little gem worth reading:Messaging 101