What's that acronym?
Talk BBTech to me
It must be opensource
Crush the competitor [intel]
100

After 3 ADSKs are entered, Incident Management will update an issue to this classic BBG term.

What is a WP?

100

Years before node.js hit the scene, this internal framework was born out of a challenge Tom Secunda posed to Shawn Edwards “How do we make our application programmers more productive?”

What is RAPID and/or RAPID+

100

Our recent work and contributions to this open source software have established Bloomberg has a leader in the storage space - we gave 3 talks, including the keynote, at last years' conference.

What is ceph?

100

This scandal-ridden company, based in Silicon Valley, is notorious for a tech stack filled with PHP, React, and GraphQL.

What is Meta?

200

This popular acronym is used to track ongoing issues and open items in Engineering.

What is a DRQS?

200

This proprietary suite of low-level C++ Libraries is used by most teams internally.

What is BDE?

200

Bloomberg recently open sourced this distributed message queuing framework, which is an extension of our work in the space, following contributions to RabbitMQ and Kafka. 

What is BlazingMQ?

200

This UK-based company has made headlines with its many acquisitions in the fintech space over the past few years. Most recently, their partnership with Microsoft has been seen as a threat to Bloomberg's core terminal offerings.

What is LSE?

300

A staple in Bloomberg's Enterprise offerings, this suite of products helps clients manage and mitigate their exposure. It integrates with our buy and sell- side offerings.

What is MARS? 

300

Primarily used for monitoring, this platform allows teams to consume metrics, logs, and events from their applications.

What is GUTS? -  Grand Unified Telemetry System

300

Silly to pronounce but disruptive in the market, Bloomberg has received awards for its contribution to this software, used for managing containers. 

What is kubernetes?

300

A major competitor for Bloomberg, this company recently bought a massive stake in Refinitiv and is now considering a buyout from the London Stock Exchange. 

What is Thomson Reuters?

400

This function has led the way in correlating sentiment analysis with Bloomberg news & stock data. 

What is TREN?

400

Once the punchline of many internal jokes, this new and improved version of our distributed relational db is now making waves in the open source community.

What is comdb2?

400

Engineers in our App Frameworks team are members of the TC39 JavaScript standards committee, participants in the W3C CSS working group, and also contributors to these two browser-focused open sourced projects started by Google.

What is Chromium & V8? 

400

Labeled the “Bloomberg Terminal Killer”, this Goldman Sachs backed company was once considered a major competitor with the likes of Slack and IB.

What is Symphony?

500

This tool/function is is home to our training and documentation, and is a must-have resource for engineers across the firm. Hint: Fran would say that "everyone" loves it. 

What is TUTI?

500

This function is a Saturday night party and a data visualization tool born out of SSEOMS. It is now used widely throughout Engineering -- the users can be feverish!

What is DISCO?

500

In 2023, the open source office collaborated with Bloomberg Philanthropy to launch this fund.

What is FOSS?

500

While many engineers steer away from this company because of their government contracts, the engineers that do work there have wacky titles like “Forward Deployed Engineer”

What is Palantir?