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Re: Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker

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Post by arcticbull »

nova22033 wrote: post #53

All of our performance-critical, high throughput services are written in Go. We have not received any unsolicited advice asking us to rewrite everything in Rust or Nim (yet). HN post is going to change that real soon..

See Rust's correctness guarantees are going to help you avoid a full-on Robinhood situation ;) jkjk

Re: Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker

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Post by spdebbarma »

knadh wrote: post #20
billfruit wrote: post #19

There is some reports that they sell your contact information to shady investment marketing companies. Many people have observed a sudden influx of calls from small, unheard of investment companies calling them up with investment offers, after they have signed up with Zerodha. Also there have been much publcised issues with futures trading on their platform, with a court ordering them to refund a large sum to an inve…

I've talked about the technical issues in a couple other responses on this post. About spam, we've been working with the capital markets regulators, cyber crime units (Police), and TRAI (telecom regulator). It is a nasty issue that plagues all capital markets institutions in India. I'd gone into some detail on the data leaks on this Reddit AMA last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndiaInvestments/comments/bhv18e/we...

That's just awful.These deep rooted issues plague so many good movements around our country.

Re: Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker

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Post by rkwz »

knadh wrote: post #48
dmix wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you find writing your apps in Dart when using Flutter? That was one language I haven't been in a rush to learn but the performance metrics you talk about can be quite persuasive. I've heard a number of people having issues with React Native. I'm curious if that is just an immaturity thing or something more fundamental.

Dart is alright. For being able to use Flutter, it's a fair trade-off. React Native, it was both. Fundamentally, it uses a JS engine that acts as a bridge, and that can be a performance bottleneck depending on the usecase.

Thanks for the response!

Flutter sounds like a good compromise between Native code (Swift/Kotlin) and React Native then.

If you need high performance but no code sharing - use Native code (Swift/Kotlin)

If you code sharing but okays performance - use React Native

If you need both high performance but code sharing - use Flutter

Re: Hello, World – Zerodha, India's largest stock broker

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Post by op03 »

kunalpowar1203 wrote: post #35

This was an amazing read. Thanks for the post. While leading a really small tech team for a fast paced and ever-morphing world of Esports in India, this was a really helpful (It looks like your team plays a lot of CS:CZ. SoStronk is our product #ShamelessPlug). This point of yours caught my attention. >Be extremely wary of technical debt. Know when to scrap and rewrite systems. We have scrapped and rewritten the majo…

If you have a small team, don't spend too much time reading what a company with 1000 employees does. Decision making and risk calculus doesn't match. At all.

With small teams your job is to keep the factory lights on as long as possible, till the cash starts flowing predictably. If you have survived long enough for that, then you can think about tech debt.

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