Archive for July 2009
Smarkets new office in the West End
From N7 to W1W in London, Smarkets moves into its new office until the end of the year.
Smarkets announces the addition of Russ Garrett
Smarkets is proud to announce the addition of Russ Garrett [russ.garrett.co.uk / Twitter] to our team. He brings an extensive amount of web experience to Smarkets and will head up our technical operations.
Russ loves working at startups. Prior to Smarkets, Russ was one of the first employees at Last.fm (via Audioscrobbler). He worked as System Architect for the past six years growing it from a small project to the top streaming music website that it is today. Russ also started the Hackspace Foundation which provides a collaborative environment for people to work on technology.
I am really excited that Russ is joining us. He’s one of the best in the business and will play a key role in helping Smarkets scale as we grow.
Smarkets Tech Talk on Erlang
Hunter spoke June 26th at Erlang Factory to talk about our back-end software stack. He also gives some background information on the online gambling industry. Smarkets was built using many open source Erlang tools, including CouchDB and RabbitMQ. The core transaction engine is written in Erlang and provides a resource-oriented API. This talk shows how the Smarkets platform was built, an overview of the architecture, and why Erlang was the right choice for us.
