Creating a Quantitative Financial Microservice

Quantitative finance: depending upon where you live, this may be an everyday requirement for you. Bigger cities and financial hubs, such as New York, Chicago, and London, will have this everywhere. But for those not familiar with the term, let's start with a brief description of what we are dealing with. Quantitative finance is a field of applied mathematics. It deals mostly with the modeling of financial markets. It overlaps heavily with computational finance and financial engineering, focusing on applications and modeling, as well as building tools for model implementation. The term most familiar with quantitative financing are the people that do it, more commonly referred to as quants. What does a quant do? Well, a financial economist will study structural relationships and the reasons why a corporation trades under a specific...