Your MAMA Don't Dance

But she's one fine Middleware Agnostic Messaging API.

OK, it's Monday. Work with me here.

My NT colleagues (NYSE Technologies) are hosting their second webinar in the NYSE Technologies Academy series on Wednesday, 17 June: "NYSE Technologies' Data Fabric and the Middleware Agnostic Messaging API (MAMA) ~The Choice for Data Distribution."

Conor Allen, head of R&D, will "examine the industry-standard Middleware Agnostic Messaging API (MAMA) and Data Fabric, a combination that forms the foundation and enabler of all NYSE Technologies' solutions. Conor will demonstrate the benefits of Data Fabric in terms of flexibility, performance, future proofing and TCO in the highly competitive capital markets." You'll learn how your organization "can embrace next-generation messaging solutions to achieve ultra low latency and gain significant footprint and cost savings." Specifically:

• Performance - achieve nanosecond latency while maintaining stability.
• Choice - Deploy the most appropriate transport protocol for the task at hand.
• Single API - Use MAMA to integrate Data Fabric applications with those on legacy messaging systems.
• Leverage NYSE Technologies' new Market Data Platform V5 for the ultimate performance in market data distribution.

The webinar is geared toward business and technology executives of trading and investing firms and liquidity venues, including CTOs, system architects, middleware managers, latency-sensitive business-line managers, heads of equities IT, senior developers, system suppliers and media.

The session is at 2 p.m. GMT, 9 a.m. EDT, 3 p.m. CET, 11 p.m. Tokyo. You can click here to sign up to watch it live or to get the replay.

BTW, TCO is total cost of ownership, don't you know. Me, I didn't, until I looked it up just now. API -- application programming interface -- I knew from the use of APIs by our specialists/designated market makers. And for you younger (or older) people, "You're Mama Don't Dance" was a hit single for the duo Loggins & Messina in 1972. Catchy, good sax solo. I have it on a 45. And if you don't know what a 45 is, you techies might think of it as a flat, vinyl, circular device for the storage and replay of music, back in the previous millennium, when no one had yet heard of MP3s or downloads and your humble blogger was just... oh, never mind.